Predicate dispatch is an object-oriented (OO) language mechanism for determining the method implementation to be invoked upon a message send. With predicate dispatch, each method ...
This paper presents a novel way for assessing the affective qualities of natural language and a scenario for its use. Previous approaches to textual affect sensing have employed k...
In POPL 2002, Petrank and Rawitz showed a universal result-finding optimal data placement is not only NP-hard but also impossible to approximate within a constant factor if P = NP...
Abstract. Data privacy is an important application of ontology modularization. The aim is to publish one module while keeping the information of another module private. We show how...
We propose a method for providing stochastic confidence estimates for rule-based and black-box natural language (NL) processing systems. Our method does not require labeled trainin...
Christian Monson, Kristy Hollingshead, Brian Roark