Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few ...
We present a theoretical and empirical comparative analysis of the two dominant categories of approaches in Chinese word segmentation: word-based models and character-based models...
Metaphorical and contextual affect detection from open-ended text-based dialogue is challenging but essential for the building of effective intelligent user interfaces. In this pa...
Translation rule extraction is an important issue in syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Recent studies show that rule coverage is one of the key factors affecting...
News Comments on the web express readers' attitudes or opinions about an event or object in the corresponding news article. And opinion target extraction from news comments i...