Multi-word expressions constitute a significant portion of the lexicon of every natural language, and handling them correctly is mandatory for various NLP applications. Yet such e...
This paper describes some of the features of a sophisticated language and environment designed for experimentation with unification-oriented linguistic descriptions. The system, w...
ind this work was to extract a relatively abstract level of information from each sentence , using only a limited vocabulary that was hand-crafted to handle a restricted set of tar...
Wendy G. Lehnert, Claire Cardie, David Fisher, Ell...
In this paper we introduce the new task of social event extraction from text. We distinguish two broad types of social events depending on whether only one or both parties are awa...
The highly variable and dynamic word usage in social media presents serious challenges for both research and those commercial applications that are geared towards blogs or other u...