The Chinese comma signals the boundary of discourse units and also anchors discourse relations between adjacent text spans. In this work, we propose a discourse structureoriented ...
Community-based knowledge forums, such as Wikipedia, are susceptible to vandalism, i.e., ill-intentioned contributions that are detrimental to the quality of collective intelligen...
Manoj Harpalani, Michael Hart, Sandesh Signh, Rob ...
Standard algorithms for template-based information extraction (IE) require predefined template schemas, and often labeled data, to learn to extract their slot fillers (e.g., an ...
A SNoW based learning approach to shallow parsing tasks is presented and studied experimentally. The approach learns to identify syntactic patterns by combining simple predictors ...
In Jijkoun et al. [2004] we showed that off-line answer extraction using syntactic patterns is a successful method for answering English factoid questions. In this paper I will di...
Most question-answering systems contain a classifier module which determines a question category, based on which each question is assigned an answer type. However, setting up synt...
Danica Damljanovic, Milan Agatonovic, Hamish Cunni...
This paper tackles textual demand analysis, the task of capturing what people want or need, rather than identifying what they like or dislike, on which much conventional work has ...
Although program faults are widely studied, there are many aspects of faults that we still do not understand, particularly about OO software. In addition to the simple fact that o...