Lexical Attraction Models (LAMs) were first introduced by Deniz Yuret in (Yuret 1998) to exemplify how an algorithm can learn word dependencies from raw text. His general thesis i...
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 ...
Thesauri, that list the most salient semantic relations between words have mostly been compiled manually. Therefore, the inclusion of an entry depends on the subjective decision o...
A method is presented for segmenting text into subtopic areas. The proportion of related pairwise words is calculated between adjacent windows of text to determine their lexical s...