This paper describes a newly created text corpus of news articles that has been annotated for cross-document co-reference. Being able to robustly resolve references to entities ac...
David Day, Janet Hitzeman, Michael L. Wick, Keith ...
Over the years the amount and range of electronic text stored on the WWW has expanded rapidly, overwhelming both users and tools designed to index and search the information. It is...
As more information becomes available electronically, tools for finding information of interest to users becomes increasingly important. The goal of the research described here is...
Eric Bloedorn, Inderjeet Mani, T. Richard MacMilla...
Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services and w...
We introduce in this paper a generalization of the widely used hidden Markov models (HMM's), which we name "structural hidden Markov models" (SHMM). Our approach is ...