When performing discussion search it might be desirable to consider non-topical measures like the number of positive and negative replies to a posting, for instance as one possibl...
Temporal expressions are important structures in natural language. In order to understand text, temporal expressions have to be extracted and normalized. In this paper we present a...
Automatic sentence segmentation of spoken language is an important precursor to downstream natural language processing. Previous studies combine lexical and prosodic features, but...
Automatic opinion recognition involves a number of related tasks, such as identifying the boundaries of opinion expression, determining their polarity, and determining their inten...
Abstract. Semantic similarity aims at establishing resemblance by interpreting the meaning of the objects being compared. The Semantic Web can benefit from semantic similarity in s...