Abstract. We present an collaborative approach towards a detailed understanding of the usage of pointing gestures accompanying referring expressions. This effort is undertaken in t...
A noun-compound is a compressed proposition that requires an audience to recover the implicit relationship between two concepts that are expressed as nouns. Listeners recover this...
This paper presents an alternative algorithm based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) that creates vector representation for linguistic units with reduced dimensionality. T...
Aligning words from sentences which are mutual translations is an important problem in different settings, such as bilingual terminology extraction, Machine Translation, or projec...
Complex tasks like question answering need to be able to identify events in text and the relations among those events. We show that this event identification task and a related ta...