Distributional similarity has been widely used to capture the semantic relatedness of words in many NLP tasks. However, various parameters such as similarity measures must be hand...
CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation Service includes a capability that labels sentences in student writing with essay-based discourse elements (e.g., thesis statements). We descri...
Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Clau...
Query expansion terms are often used to enhance original query formulations in document retrieval. Such terms are usually selected from the entire documents or from windows or pas...
In this paper we present RefGen, a reference chain identification module for French. RefGen algorithm uses genre specific properties of reference chains and an accessibility measur...
Lexical selection is a significant problem for widecoverage machine translation: depending on the context, a given source language word can often be translated into different targ...