Corpus Statistics

We describe a biographical multi- document summarizer that summarizes information about people described in the news. The summarizer uses corpus statistics along with linguistic knowledge to select and merge descriptions …...

Near-synonyms are words that mean ap- proximately the same thing, and which tend to be assigned to the same leaf in ontolo- gies such as WordNet. However, they can differ …...

Many errors produced by unsupervised and semi-supervised relation extraction (RE) systems occur because of wrong recogni- tion of entities that participate in the rela- tions. This is especially true for …...

AbstractIn this paper we describe FragmentSeeker, a tool which is capable to identify all those tree constructions which are recurring multiple times in a large Phrase Structure treebank. The tool …...

Learning inference relations between verbs is at the heart of many semantic applications. However, most prior work on learning such rules focused on a rather narrow set of in- formation …...

AbstractIn this paper we present SenTube – a dataset of user-generated comments on YouTube videos annotated for information content and sentiment polarity. It contains annotations that allow to develop classifiers …...

AbstractThis article presents an overview of the existing acoustical corpuses suitable for broadcast news automatic transcription task in the Slovak language. The TUKE-BNews-SK database created in our department was built …...