This paper describes a new method for computing lexical chains. These are sequences of semantically related words that reflect a text’s cohesive structure. In contrast to previo...
This paper proposes a hierarchical text categorization (TC) approach to encoding free-text clinical notes with ICD-9-CM codes. Preliminary experimental result on the 2007 Computat...
Earlier work in parsing Arabic has speculated that attachment to construct state constructions decreases parsing performance. We make this speculation precise and define the probl...
We describe an algorithm for a novel task: disambiguating the pronoun you in conversation. You can be generic or referential; finding referential you is important for tasks such ...
In some applications, especially spectrometric ones, curve classifiers achieve better performances if they work on the m-order derivatives of their inputs. This paper proposes a sm...