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FLAIRS
2008
15 years 21 days ago
Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences from Internet Weblog Stories
One of the central problems in building broad-coverage story understanding systems is generating expectations about event sequences, i.e. predicting what happens next given some a...
Mehdi Manshadi, Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
DGO
2007
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14 years 12 months ago
A bootstrapping approach for identifying stakeholders in public-comment corpora
A stakeholder is an individual, group, organization, or community that has an interest or stake in a consensus-building process. The goal of stakeholder identification is identify...
Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction
Models of language learning play a central role in a wide range of applications: from psycholinguistic theories of how people acquire new word knowledge, to information systems th...
Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
JAIR
2006
110views more  JAIR 2006»
14 years 10 months ago
Domain Adaptation for Statistical Classifiers
The most basic assumption used in statistical learning theory is that training data and test data are drawn from the same underlying distribution. Unfortunately, in many applicati...
Hal Daumé III, Daniel Marcu
DOCENG
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
From rhetorical structures to document structure: shallow pragmatic analysis for document engineering
In this paper, we extend previous work on the automatic structuring of medical documents using content analysis. Our long-term objective is to take advantage of specific rhetoric ...
Gersende Georg, Hugo Hernault, Marc Cavazza, Helmu...