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We specify an algorithm that builds up a hi- erarchy of referential discourse segments from local centering data. The spatial extension and nesting of these discourse segments constrain the reachability …...

This paper presents a new bottom-up chart parsing algorithm for Prolog along with a compilation procedure that reduces the amount of copying at run-time to a con- stant number (2) …...

We present a geometric view on bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora, which allows to re-interpret the methods proposed so far and iden- tify unresolved problems. This motivates three new …...

Question detection serves great purposes in the cQA question retrieval task. While detecting questions in standard language data corpus is relatively easy, it becomes a great challenge for online content. …...

AbstractExtracting instances of sentiment-oriented relations from user-generated web documents is important for online marketing analysis. Unlike previous work, we formulate this extraction task as a structured prediction problem and design …...

Online shopping caters the needs of millions of users on a daily basis. To build an accurate system that can retrieve relevant products for a query like “MB252 with travel …...

AbstractThe official voting records of United States congresspeople are preserved as roll call votes. Prediction of voting behavior of politicians for whom no voting record exists, such as individuals running …...

AbstractIn this paper, we present our work on developing a vocabulary trainer that uses exercises generated from language resources such as ConceptNet and crowdsources the responses of the learners to …...