Since facts or statements in a hedge or negated context typically appear as false positives, the proper handling of these language phenomena is of great importance in biomedical t...
Detecting conflicting statements is a foundational text understanding task with applications in information analysis. We propose an appropriate definition of contradiction for NLP...
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna N. Rafferty, Chr...
We investigate the impact of input data scale in corpus-based learning using a study style of Zipf's law. In our research, Chinese word segmentation is chosen as the study ca...
Terminologies are increasingly based on “ontologies” developed in description logics and related languages such as the new Web Ontology Language, OWL. The use of description l...
York University participated in the TREC 2008 Blog track, by introducing two opinion finding features. By initially focusing solely on the sentiment terms found in a document, usi...