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In fact, most people have had the experience that they haven’t made detailed itinerary in advance before a journey, and as a result they don’t know what place or what kind of activity is suitable as the next visit location and activity after they engage in an activity in a …...

In the beginning, search engines provide placements next to the original search results for advertisers on specific keywords. Since users often search for their interests or purchasing decision, timely presenting proper advertisements to users will encourage them to click on search ads. With the rapid growth of advertising, there is …...

PTT (批踢踢) is one of the largest web forums in Taiwan. In the last few years, its importance has been growing rapidly because it has been widely mentioned by most of the mainstream media. It is observed that its influence reflects not only on the society but also on the …...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a developmental motor disorder and the study of the speech characteristics and developmental speech patterns may provide valuable information on early speech development. Vowels appear early in speech development and they are central to the understanding of the acoustic properties of speech. Therefore, the current study …...

This paper aims to seek approaches in investigating the relationships within emotion words under linguistic aspect, rather than figuring out new algorithms or so in processing emotion detection. It is noted that emotion words could be categorized into two groups: emotion-inducing words and emotion-describing words, and emotion-inducing words would be …...

Spelling error is broadly classified in two categories namely non word error and real word error. In this paper a localized real word error detection and correction method is proposed where the scores of bigrams generated by immediate left and right neighbour of the candidate word and the trigram of …...

We propose a method for acquiring plain lexical paraphrase using a Japanese dictionary in order to achieve lexical simplification for children. The proposed method extracts plain words that are the most similar to the headword from the dictionary definition. The definition statements describe the headword using plain words; therefore, paraphrasing …...

. This paper presents a set of experiments aiming to (1) assess the contribution of NLP to the specific issue of the readability of texts for French as a foreign language (FFL) readers and (2) to propose a new readability formula for FFL. This new model relies on 46 tex- …...

. In event-based Information Extraction systems, a major task is the filling from a text of a template gathering information related to a particular event. Such template filling may be a hard task when the information is scattered throughout the text and mixed with similar pieces of information relative to …...

The goal of this study is to investigate whether learners’ written data in highly inflectional Czech can suggest a consistent set of clues for automatic identification of the learners’ L1 background. For our experiments, we use texts written by learners of Czech, which have been automatically and manually annotated for …...

We detect errors in Korean post-positional particle usage, focusing on optimizing omission detection, as omissions are the single-biggest factor in particle errors for learners of Korean. We also develop a sys- tem for predicting the correct choice of a particle. For omission detection, we model the task largely on English …...

Sentence fusion—the merging of sen- tences containing similar information— has been shown to be useful in an abstrac- tive summarization context. We present a new dataset of sentence fusion in- stances obtained from evaluation datasets in summarization shared tasks and use this dataset to explore supervised approaches to sentence fusion. …...

The work presented in this paper attempts to evaluate and quantify the use of dis- course relations in the context of blog summarization and compare their use to more traditional and factual texts. Specif- ically, we measured the usefulness of 6 discourse relations - namely compari- son, contingency, illustration, attribution, …...

Methods dealing with bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora are often based on word co-occurrence ob- servation and are by essence more effec- tive when using large corpora. In most cases, specialized comparable corpora are of small size, and this particularity has a direct impact on bilingual terminology ex- traction …...

There is a need of matching text diffi- culty to the expected reading skill of the audience. Readability measures were de- veloped with this objective in mind, first by psycholinguists, and more recently, by practitioners of natural language process- ing. A common strategy was to extract linguistic features that are …...

Virtually all the commonly-used evalua- tion metrics for entity coreference reso- lution are linguistically agnostic, treating the mentions to be clustered as generic rather than linguistic objects. We argue that the performance of an entity coref- erence resolver cannot be accurately re- flected when it is evaluated using linguis- tically …...

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become favorite portals for users to discuss and express opinions. Research shows that topical discussions around events tend to evolve socially on microblogs. However, sources like Twitter have no explicit discussion thread which will link semantically similar posts. More- over, the …...

This paper describes a corpus com- prised of university entrance examina- tions, which is aimed to promote research on NLP-based problem solving. Since en- trance examinations are created for quan- tifying human ability of problem solving, they are a desirable resource for bench- marking NLP-based problem solving sys- tems. However, …...

Determining the stance expressed in a post written for a two-sided debate in an on- line debate forum is a relatively new and challenging problem in opinion mining. We seek to gain a better understanding of how to improve machine learning ap- proaches to stance classification of ideo- logical debates, …...

This paper describes an unsupervised method for extracting product attributes and their values from an e-commerce product page. Previously, distant supervi- sion has been applied for this task, but it is not applicable in domains where no reli- able knowledge base (KB) is available. In- stead, the proposed method automatically …...