In this paper we examine the effects of noise when creating a real-world weblog corpus for information retrieval. We focus on the DiffPost (Lee et al. 2008) approach to noise remo...
James Lanagan, Paul Ferguson, Neil O'Hare, Alan F....
We examine the viability of building large polarity lexicons semi-automatically from the web. We begin by describing a graph propagation framework inspired by previous work on con...
Leonid Velikovich, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kerry H...
Mitchell et al. (2008) demonstrated that corpus-extracted models of semantic knowledge can predict neural activation patterns recorded using fMRI. This could be a very powerful te...
Sound symbolism is the non-arbitrary link between the sound of a word and its meaning. Imai et al. (2008) showed that Japanese speaking children benefited from the presence of sou...
For a given target node T and a given depth k 1, we propose an algorithm for discovering a local causal network around the target T to depth k. In our algorithm, we find parents,...