Researchers in textual entailment have begun to consider inferences involving downward-entailing operators, an interesting and important class of lexical items that change the way...
Statistical language models can learn relationships between topics discussed in a document collection and persons, organizations and places mentioned in each document. We present a...
David Newman, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Padhraic Smy...
In information retrieval, the cluster hypothesis states: closely related documents tend to be relevant to the same request. We exploit this hypothesis directly by adjusting queryb...
Fusion of sensor and communication data currently can only be performed at a late processing stage after sensor and information are formulated as logical statements at appropriate...
Real-world natural language sentences are long and complex, and always contain unexpected grammatical constructions. It even includes noise and ungrammaticality. This paper descri...