An annotator’s classification of a text not only tells us something about the intent of the text’s author, it also tells us something about the annotator’s standpoint. To un...
Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Thomas Clay Templeton, Jor...
Semantic entailment is the problem of determining if the meaning of a given sentence entails that of another. This is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding that ...
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyaka...
We investigate the problem of ordering medical events in unstructured clinical narratives by learning to rank them based on their time of occurrence. We represent each medical eve...
Preethi Raghavan, Albert M. Lai, Eric Fosler-Lussi...
Because of the complexity of documents and the variety of applications which must be supported, document understanding requires the integration of image understanding with text un...
Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor, Deborah A. Dahl, Mark Li...
The Broadcast News Editor (BNE) and Broadcast News Navigator (BNN) are fully implemented systems that exploit integrated image, speech, and language processing to support intellig...