Thereis a wealthof informationto be minedfromnarrative text on the WorldWideWeb.Unfortunately, standard natural language processing (NLP)extraction techniques expect full, grammat...
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
Abstract. We consider the iterates of bilinear functions over the semiring (max, +). Equivalently, our object of study can be viewed as recognizable tree series over the semiring (...
Sabrina Mantaci, Vincent D. Blondel, Jean Mairesse
In this paper, we discuss our analysis and resulting new annotations of Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) data tagged as Concession. Concession arises whenever one of the two argumen...
I show how a conversational process that takes simple, intuitively meaningful steps may be understood as a sophisticated computation that derives the richly detailed, complex repr...