Locality Conditions (LCs) on (unbounded) dependencies have played a major role in the development of generative syntax ever since the seminal work by Ross [22]. Descriptively, they...
Abstract. Some new algebras, which are possible denotations for various determiners, are studied. One of them is the algebra of generalised cardinal quantifiers which is a sub-alg...
Abstract. This paper introduces a novel approach to language processing, in which linguistic facts are represented as predicates over ranges of the intput text, usually, but not li...
This paper proposes a chunking strategy to detect unknown words in Chinese word segmentation. First, a raw sentence is pre-segmented into a sequence of word atoms 1 using a maximum...
Research on linear text segmentation has been an on-going focus in NLP for the last decade, and it has great potential for a wide range of applications such as document summarizati...
Jingbo Zhu, Na Ye, Xinzhi Chang, Wenliang Chen, Be...
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
This paper studies the problem of mining relational data hidden in natural language text. In particular, it approaches the relation classification problem with the strategy of tra...