Short Messaging Service (SMS) texts behave quite differently from normal written texts and have some very special phenomena. To translate SMS texts, traditional approaches model s...
This paper describes the development of QuestionBank, a corpus of 4000 parseannotated questions for (i) use in training parsers employed in QA, and (ii) evaluation of question par...
away concepts from the surface form of the text. The authors argue that while there has been research into automatic classification, general classification schemes are unsuitable f...
This paper shows that a simple two-stage approach to handle non-local dependencies in Named Entity Recognition (NER) can outperform existing approaches that handle non-local depen...
Most information extraction systems either use hand written extraction patterns or use a machine learning algorithm that is trained on a manually annotated corpus. Both of these a...