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Mimicry Is Presidential: Linguistic Style Matching in Presidential Debates and Improved Polling Numbers
cs.CL
The current research used the contexts of U.S. presidential debates and negotiations to examine whether matching the linguistic style of an opponent in a two-party exchange affects the reactions of third-party observers. Building off communication accommodation theory (CAT), interaction alignment theory (IAT), and proc...
computer science
34,305
Is Stack Overflow Overflowing With Questions and Tags
cs.SI
Programming question and answer (Q & A) websites, such as Quora, Stack Overflow, and Yahoo! Answer etc. helps us to understand the programming concepts easily and quickly in a way that has been tested and applied by many software developers. Stack Overflow is one of the most frequently used programming Q\&A website whe...
computer science
34,306
Fast, Flexible Models for Discovering Topic Correlation across Weakly-Related Collections
cs.CL
Weak topic correlation across document collections with different numbers of topics in individual collections presents challenges for existing cross-collection topic models. This paper introduces two probabilistic topic models, Correlated LDA (C-LDA) and Correlated HDP (C-HDP). These address problems that can arise whe...
computer science
34,307
Simple Text Mining for Sentiment Analysis of Political Figure Using Naive Bayes Classifier Method
cs.CL
Text mining can be applied to many fields. One of the application is using text mining in digital newspaper to do politic sentiment analysis. In this paper sentiment analysis is applied to get information from digital news articles about its positive or negative sentiment regarding particular politician. This paper sug...
computer science
34,308
A Framework for Comparing Groups of Documents
cs.CL
We present a general framework for comparing multiple groups of documents. A bipartite graph model is proposed where document groups are represented as one node set and the comparison criteria are represented as the other node set. Using this model, we present basic algorithms to extract insights into similarities and ...
computer science
34,309
Better Summarization Evaluation with Word Embeddings for ROUGE
cs.CL
ROUGE is a widely adopted, automatic evaluation measure for text summarization. While it has been shown to correlate well with human judgements, it is biased towards surface lexical similarities. This makes it unsuitable for the evaluation of abstractive summarization, or summaries with substantial paraphrasing. We stu...
computer science
34,310
A Hybrid Approach to Domain-Specific Entity Linking
cs.IR
The current state-of-the-art Entity Linking (EL) systems are geared towards corpora that are as heterogeneous as the Web, and therefore perform sub-optimally on domain-specific corpora. A key open problem is how to construct effective EL systems for specific domains, as knowledge of the local context should in principl...
computer science
34,311
On the evolution of word usage of classical Chinese poetry
cs.CL
The hierarchy of classical Chinese poetry has been broadly acknowledged by a number of studies in Chinese literature. However, quantitative investigations about the evolution of classical Chinese poetry are limited. The primary goal of this study is to provide quantitative evidence of the evolutionary linkages, with em...
computer science
34,312
amLite: Amharic Transliteration Using Key Map Dictionary
cs.CL
amLite is a framework developed to map ASCII transliterated Amharic texts back to the original Amharic letter texts. The aim of such a framework is to make existing Amharic linguistic data consistent and interoperable among researchers. For achieving the objective, a key map dictionary is constructed using the possible...
computer science
34,313
Building a Pilot Software Quality-in-Use Benchmark Dataset
cs.SE
Prepared domain specific datasets plays an important role to supervised learning approaches. In this article a new sentence dataset for software quality-in-use is proposed. Three experts were chosen to annotate the data using a proposed annotation scheme. Then the data were reconciled in a (no match eliminate) process ...
computer science
34,314
Noise Robust IOA/CAS Speech Separation and Recognition System For The Third 'CHIME' Challenge
cs.SD
This paper presents the contribution to the third 'CHiME' speech separation and recognition challenge including both front-end signal processing and back-end speech recognition. In the front-end, Multi-channel Wiener filter (MWF) is designed to achieve background noise reduction. Different from traditional MWF, optimiz...
computer science
34,315
A Review of Features for the Discrimination of Twitter Users: Application to the Prediction of Offline Influence
cs.CL
Many works related to Twitter aim at characterizing its users in some way: role on the service (spammers, bots, organizations, etc.), nature of the user (socio-professional category, age, etc.), topics of interest , and others. However, for a given user classification problem, it is very difficult to select a set of ap...
computer science
34,316
Noise-Robust ASR for the third 'CHiME' Challenge Exploiting Time-Frequency Masking based Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement and Recurrent Neural Network
cs.SD
In this paper, the Lingban entry to the third 'CHiME' speech separation and recognition challenge is presented. A time-frequency masking based speech enhancement front-end is proposed to suppress the environmental noise utilizing multi-channel coherence and spatial cues. The state-of-the-art speech recognition techniqu...
computer science
34,317
A Sentence Meaning Based Alignment Method for Parallel Text Corpora Preparation
cs.CL
Text alignment is crucial to the accuracy of Machine Translation (MT) systems, some NLP tools or any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data. This research proposes a language independent sentence alignment approach based on Polish (not position-sensitive language) to English experiments. This alignment ap...
computer science
34,318
RDF Knowledge Graph Visualization From a Knowledge Extraction System
cs.HC
In this paper, we present a system to visualize RDF knowledge graphs. These graphs are obtained from a knowledge extraction system designed by GEOLSemantics. This extraction is performed using natural language processing and trigger detection. The user can visualize subgraphs by selecting some ontology features like co...
computer science
34,319
Stochastic model for phonemes uncovers an author-dependency of their usage
cs.CL
We study rank-frequency relations for phonemes, the minimal units that still relate to linguistic meaning. We show that these relations can be described by the Dirichlet distribution, a direct analogue of the ideal-gas model in statistical mechanics. This description allows us to demonstrate that the rank-frequency rel...
computer science
34,320
Parameterized Neural Network Language Models for Information Retrieval
cs.IR
Information Retrieval (IR) models need to deal with two difficult issues, vocabulary mismatch and term dependencies. Vocabulary mismatch corresponds to the difficulty of retrieving relevant documents that do not contain exact query terms but semantically related terms. Term dependencies refers to the need of considerin...
computer science
34,321
Helping Domain Experts Build Speech Translation Systems
cs.HC
We present a new platform, "Regulus Lite", which supports rapid development and web deployment of several types of phrasal speech translation systems using a minimal formalism. A distinguishing feature is that most development work can be performed directly by domain experts. We motivate the need for platforms of this ...
computer science
34,322
Hierarchical Representation of Prosody for Statistical Speech Synthesis
cs.CL
Prominences and boundaries are the essential constituents of prosodic structure in speech. They provide for means to chunk the speech stream into linguistically relevant units by providing them with relative saliences and demarcating them within coherent utterance structures. Prominences and boundaries have both been w...
computer science
34,323
A Novel Approach to Document Classification using WordNet
cs.IR
Content based Document Classification is one of the biggest challenges in the context of free text mining. Current algorithms on document classifications mostly rely on cluster analysis based on bag-of-words approach. However that method is still being applied to many modern scientific dilemmas. It has established a st...
computer science
34,324
Textual Analysis for Studying Chinese Historical Documents and Literary Novels
cs.CL
We analyzed historical and literary documents in Chinese to gain insights into research issues, and overview our studies which utilized four different sources of text materials in this paper. We investigated the history of concepts and transliterated words in China with the Database for the Study of Modern China Though...
computer science
34,325
A language model based approach towards large scale and lightweight language identification systems
cs.SD
Multilingual spoken dialogue systems have gained prominence in the recent past necessitating the requirement for a front-end Language Identification (LID) system. Most of the existing LID systems rely on modeling the language discriminative information from low-level acoustic features. Due to the variabilities of speec...
computer science
34,326
A Preliminary Study on the Learning Informativeness of Data Subsets
cs.CL
Estimating the internal state of a robotic system is complex: this is performed from multiple heterogeneous sensor inputs and knowledge sources. Discretization of such inputs is done to capture saliences, represented as symbolic information, which often presents structure and recurrence. As these sequences are used to ...
computer science
34,327
A Graph Traversal Based Approach to Answer Non-Aggregation Questions Over DBpedia
cs.CL
We present a question answering system over DBpedia, filling the gap between user information needs expressed in natural language and a structured query interface expressed in SPARQL over the underlying knowledge base (KB). Given the KB, our goal is to comprehend a natural language query and provide corresponding accur...
computer science
34,328
Learning multi-faceted representations of individuals from heterogeneous evidence using neural networks
cs.SI
Inferring latent attributes of people online is an important social computing task, but requires integrating the many heterogeneous sources of information available on the web. We propose learning individual representations of people using neural nets to integrate rich linguistic and network evidence gathered from soci...
computer science
34,329
How to merge three different methods for information filtering ?
cs.CL
Twitter is now a gold marketing tool for entities concerned with online reputation. To automatically monitor online reputation of entities , systems have to deal with ambiguous entity names, polarity detection and topic detection. We propose three approaches to tackle the first issue: monitoring Twitter in order to fin...
computer science
34,330
Object Oriented Analysis using Natural Language Processing concepts: A Review
cs.SE
The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) starts with eliciting requirements of the customers in the form of Software Requirement Specification (SRS). SRS document needed for software development is mostly written in Natural Language(NL) convenient for the client. From the SRS document only, the class name, its attrib...
computer science
34,331
Automatic Prosody Prediction for Chinese Speech Synthesis using BLSTM-RNN and Embedding Features
cs.CL
Prosody affects the naturalness and intelligibility of speech. However, automatic prosody prediction from text for Chinese speech synthesis is still a great challenge and the traditional conditional random fields (CRF) based method always heavily relies on feature engineering. In this paper, we propose to use neural ne...
computer science
34,332
Transforming Wikipedia into an Ontology-based Information Retrieval Search Engine for Local Experts using a Third-Party Taxonomy
cs.IR
Wikipedia is widely used for finding general information about a wide variety of topics. Its vocation is not to provide local information. For example, it provides plot, cast, and production information about a given movie, but not showing times in your local movie theatre. Here we describe how we can connect local inf...
computer science
34,333
Multi-lingual Geoparsing based on Machine Translation
cs.CL
Our method for multi-lingual geoparsing uses monolingual tools and resources along with machine translation and alignment to return location words in many languages. Not only does our method save the time and cost of developing geoparsers for each language separately, but also it allows the possibility of a wide range ...
computer science
34,334
Sentiment Expression via Emoticons on Social Media
cs.CL
Emoticons (e.g., :) and :( ) have been widely used in sentiment analysis and other NLP tasks as features to ma- chine learning algorithms or as entries of sentiment lexicons. In this paper, we argue that while emoticons are strong and common signals of sentiment expression on social media the relationship between emoti...
computer science
34,335
Semi-supervised Bootstrapping approach for Named Entity Recognition
cs.CL
The aim of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is to identify references of named entities in unstructured documents, and to classify them into pre-defined semantic categories. NER often aids from added background knowledge in the form of gazetteers. However using such a collection does not deal with name variants and canno...
computer science
34,336
TGSum: Build Tweet Guided Multi-Document Summarization Dataset
cs.IR
The development of summarization research has been significantly hampered by the costly acquisition of reference summaries. This paper proposes an effective way to automatically collect large scales of news-related multi-document summaries with reference to social media's reactions. We utilize two types of social label...
computer science
34,337
Recognizing Temporal Linguistic Expression Pattern of Individual with Suicide Risk on Social Media
cs.SI
Suicide is a global public health problem. Early detection of individual suicide risk plays a key role in suicide prevention. In this paper, we propose to look into individual suicide risk through time series analysis of personal linguistic expression on social media (Weibo). We examined temporal patterns of the lingui...
computer science
34,338
Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) untuk Klasifikasi Dokumen Teks Berbahasa Indonesia
cs.CL
One task that is included in managing documents is how to find substantial information inside. Topic modeling is a technique that has been developed to produce document representation in form of keywords. The keywords will be used in the indexing process and document retrieval as needed by users. In this research, we w...
computer science
34,339
Klasifikasi Komponen Argumen Secara Otomatis pada Dokumen Teks berbentuk Esai Argumentatif
cs.CL
By automatically recognize argument component, essay writers can do some inspections to texts that they have written. It will assist essay scoring process objectively and precisely because essay grader is able to see how well the argument components are constructed. Some reseachers have tried to do argument detection a...
computer science
34,340
Learning Semantic Similarity for Very Short Texts
cs.IR
Levering data on social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, requires information retrieval algorithms to become able to relate very short text fragments to each other. Traditional text similarity methods such as tf-idf cosine-similarity, based on word overlap, mostly fail to produce good results in this case, since wo...
computer science
34,341
Topic segmentation via community detection in complex networks
cs.CL
Many real systems have been modelled in terms of network concepts, and written texts are a particular example of information networks. In recent years, the use of network methods to analyze language has allowed the discovery of several interesting findings, including the proposition of novel models to explain the emerg...
computer science
34,342
SentiBench - a benchmark comparison of state-of-the-practice sentiment analysis methods
cs.CL
In the last few years thousands of scientific papers have investigated sentiment analysis, several startups that measure opinions on real data have emerged and a number of innovative products related to this theme have been developed. There are multiple methods for measuring sentiments, including lexical-based and supe...
computer science
34,343
THCHS-30 : A Free Chinese Speech Corpus
cs.CL
Speech data is crucially important for speech recognition research. There are quite some speech databases that can be purchased at prices that are reasonable for most research institutes. However, for young people who just start research activities or those who just gain initial interest in this direction, the cost for...
computer science
34,344
An Operator for Entity Extraction in MapReduce
cs.DB
Dictionary-based entity extraction involves finding mentions of dictionary entities in text. Text mentions are often noisy, containing spurious or missing words. Efficient algorithms for detecting approximate entity mentions follow one of two general techniques. The first approach is to build an index on the entities a...
computer science
34,345
News Across Languages - Cross-Lingual Document Similarity and Event Tracking
cs.IR
In today's world, we follow news which is distributed globally. Significant events are reported by different sources and in different languages. In this work, we address the problem of tracking of events in a large multilingual stream. Within a recently developed system Event Registry we examine two aspects of this pro...
computer science
34,346
Service Choreography, SBVR, and Time
cs.SE
We propose the use of structured natural language (English) in specifying service choreographies, focusing on the what rather than the how of the required coordination of participant services in realising a business application scenario. The declarative approach we propose uses the OMG standard Semantics of Business Vo...
computer science
34,347
Communicating with sentences: A multi-word naming game model
cs.CL
Naming game simulates the process of naming an object by a single word, in which a population of communicating agents can reach global consensus asymptotically through iteratively pair-wise conversations. We propose an extension of the single-word model to a multi-word naming game (MWNG), simulating the case of describ...
computer science
34,348
Analyzing Walter Skeat's Forty-Five Parallel Extracts of William Langland's Piers Plowman
stat.AP
Walter Skeat published his critical edition of William Langland's 14th century alliterative poem, Piers Plowman, in 1886. In preparation for this he located forty-five manuscripts, and to compare dialects, he published excerpts from each of these. This paper does three statistical analyses using these excerpts, each of...
computer science
34,349
Technical Report: a tool for measuring Prosodic Accommodation
cs.SD
This article has been withdrawn by arXiv administrators because the submitter did not have the legal authority to grant the license applied to the work.
computer science
34,350
Research Project: Text Engineering Tool for Ontological Scientometry
cs.CL
The number of scientific papers grows exponentially in many disciplines. The share of online available papers grows as well. At the same time, the period of time for a paper to loose at chance to be cited anymore shortens. The decay of the citing rate shows similarity to ultradiffusional processes as for other online c...
computer science
34,351
Improved Spoken Document Summarization with Coverage Modeling Techniques
cs.CL
Extractive summarization aims at selecting a set of indicative sentences from a source document as a summary that can express the major theme of the document. A general consensus on extractive summarization is that both relevance and coverage are critical issues to address. The existing methods designed to model covera...
computer science
34,352
Speech vocoding for laboratory phonology
cs.CL
Using phonological speech vocoding, we propose a platform for exploring relations between phonology and speech processing, and in broader terms, for exploring relations between the abstract and physical structures of a speech signal. Our goal is to make a step towards bridging phonology and speech processing and to con...
computer science
34,353
Undecidability of the Lambek calculus with a relevant modality
math.LO
Morrill and Valentin in the paper "Computational coverage of TLG: Nonlinearity" considered an extension of the Lambek calculus enriched by a so-called "exponential" modality. This modality behaves in the "relevant" style, that is, it allows contraction and permutation, but not weakening. Morrill and Valentin stated an ...
computer science
34,354
LIA-RAG: a system based on graphs and divergence of probabilities applied to Speech-To-Text Summarization
cs.CL
This paper aims to introduces a new algorithm for automatic speech-to-text summarization based on statistical divergences of probabilities and graphs. The input is a text from speech conversations with noise, and the output a compact text summary. Our results, on the pilot task CCCS Multiling 2015 French corpus are ver...
computer science
34,355
Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript
cs.CL
The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval book written in an unknown script. This paper studies the distribution of similarly spelled words in the Voynich Manuscript. It shows that the distribution of words within the manuscript is not compatible with natural languages.
computer science
34,356
Extracting Keyword for Disambiguating Name Based on the Overlap Principle
cs.IR
Name disambiguation has become one of the main themes in the Semantic Web agenda. The semantic web is an extension of the current Web in which information is not only given well-defined meaning, but also has many purposes that contain the ambiguous naturally or a lot of thing came with the overlap, mainly deals with th...
computer science
34,357
WASSUP? LOL : Characterizing Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Twitter
cs.CL
Language in social media is mostly driven by new words and spellings that are constantly entering the lexicon thereby polluting it and resulting in high deviation from the formal written version. The primary entities of such language are the out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words. In this paper, we study various sociolinguistic...
computer science
34,358
"Draw My Topics": Find Desired Topics fast from large scale of Corpus
cs.CL
We develop the "Draw My Topics" toolkit, which provides a fast way to incorporate social scientists' interest into standard topic modelling. Instead of using raw corpus with primitive processing as input, an algorithm based on Vector Space Model and Conditional Entropy are used to connect social scientists' willingness...
computer science
34,359
Utilização de Grafos e Matriz de Similaridade na Sumarização Automática de Documentos Baseada em Extração de Frases
cs.CL
The internet increased the amount of information available. However, the reading and understanding of this information are costly tasks. In this scenario, the Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications enable very important solutions, highlighting the Automatic Text Summarization (ATS), which produce a summary from...
computer science
34,360
Mining Software Quality from Software Reviews: Research Trends and Open Issues
cs.CL
Software review text fragments have considerably valuable information about users experience. It includes a huge set of properties including the software quality. Opinion mining or sentiment analysis is concerned with analyzing textual user judgments. The application of sentiment analysis on software reviews can find a...
computer science
34,361
Knowledge Transfer with Medical Language Embeddings
cs.CL
Identifying relationships between concepts is a key aspect of scientific knowledge synthesis. Finding these links often requires a researcher to laboriously search through scien- tific papers and databases, as the size of these resources grows ever larger. In this paper we describe how distributional semantics can be u...
computer science
34,362
Variations of the Similarity Function of TextRank for Automated Summarization
cs.CL
This article presents new alternatives to the similarity function for the TextRank algorithm for automatic summarization of texts. We describe the generalities of the algorithm and the different functions we propose. Some of these variants achieve a significative improvement using the same metrics and dataset as the or...
computer science
34,363
On the emergence of syntactic structures: quantifying and modelling duality of patterning
cs.CL
The complex organization of syntax in hierarchical structures is one of the core design features of human language. Duality of patterning refers for instance to the organization of the meaningful elements in a language at two distinct levels: a combinatorial level where meaningless forms are combined into meaningful fo...
computer science
34,364
An Empirical Study on Academic Commentary and Its Implications on Reading and Writing
cs.CY
The relationship between reading and writing (RRW) is one of the major themes in learning science. One of its obstacles is that it is difficult to define or measure the latent background knowledge of the individual. However, in an academic research setting, scholars are required to explicitly list their background know...
computer science
34,365
Complex Networks of Words in Fables
cs.CL
In this chapter we give an overview of the application of complex network theory to quantify some properties of language. Our study is based on two fables in Ukrainian, Mykyta the Fox and Abu-Kasym's slippers. It consists of two parts: the analysis of frequency-rank distributions of words and the application of complex...
computer science
34,366
Overview of Annotation Creation: Processes & Tools
cs.CL
Creating linguistic annotations requires more than just a reliable annotation scheme. Annotation can be a complex endeavour potentially involving many people, stages, and tools. This chapter outlines the process of creating end-to-end linguistic annotations, identifying specific tasks that researchers often perform. Be...
computer science
34,367
Temporal Network Analysis of Literary Texts
cs.CL
We study temporal networks of characters in literature focusing on "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll and the anonymous "La Chanson de Roland" (around 1100). The former, one of the most influential pieces of nonsense literature ever written, describes the adventures of Alice in a fantasy world w...
computer science
34,368
Improved Accent Classification Combining Phonetic Vowels with Acoustic Features
cs.SD
Researches have shown accent classification can be improved by integrating semantic information into pure acoustic approach. In this work, we combine phonetic knowledge, such as vowels, with enhanced acoustic features to build an improved accent classification system. The classifier is based on Gaussian Mixture Model-U...
computer science
34,369
From quantum foundations via natural language meaning to a theory of everything
cs.CL
In this paper we argue for a paradigmatic shift from `reductionism' to `togetherness'. In particular, we show how interaction between systems in quantum theory naturally carries over to modelling how word meanings interact in natural language. Since meaning in natural language, depending on the subject domain, encompas...
computer science
34,370
Optimizing the Learning Order of Chinese Characters Using a Novel Topological Sort Algorithm
cs.CL
We present a novel algorithm for optimizing the order in which Chinese characters are learned, one that incorporates the benefits of learning them in order of usage frequency and in order of their hierarchal structural relationships. We show that our work outperforms previously published orders and algorithms. Our algo...
computer science
34,371
Event Search and Analytics: Detecting Events in Semantically Annotated Corpora for Search and Analytics
cs.IR
In this article, I present the questions that I seek to answer in my PhD research. I posit to analyze natural language text with the help of semantic annotations and mine important events for navigating large text corpora. Semantic annotations such as named entities, geographic locations, and temporal expressions can h...
computer science
34,372
Optimized Polynomial Evaluation with Semantic Annotations
cs.PL
In this paper we discuss how semantic annotations can be used to introduce mathematical algorithmic information of the underlying imperative code to enable compilers to produce code transformations that will enable better performance. By using this approaches not only good performance is achieved, but also better progr...
computer science
34,373
Semi-Automatic Data Annotation, POS Tagging and Mildly Context-Sensitive Disambiguation: the eXtended Revised AraMorph (XRAM)
cs.CL
An extended, revised form of Tim Buckwalter's Arabic lexical and morphological resource AraMorph, eXtended Revised AraMorph (henceforth XRAM), is presented which addresses a number of weaknesses and inconsistencies of the original model by allowing a wider coverage of real-world Classical and contemporary (both formal ...
computer science
34,374
A matter of words: NLP for quality evaluation of Wikipedia medical articles
cs.IR
Automatic quality evaluation of Web information is a task with many fields of applications and of great relevance, especially in critical domains like the medical one. We move from the intuition that the quality of content of medical Web documents is affected by features related with the specific domain. First, the usa...
computer science
34,375
Part-of-Speech Tagging for Historical English
cs.CL
As more historical texts are digitized, there is interest in applying natural language processing tools to these archives. However, the performance of these tools is often unsatisfactory, due to language change and genre differences. Spelling normalization heuristics are the dominant solution for dealing with historica...
computer science
34,376
Zipf's law emerges asymptotically during phase transitions in communicative systems
cs.CL
Zipf's law predicts a power-law relationship between word rank and frequency in language communication systems, and is widely reported in texts yet remains enigmatic as to its origins. Computer simulations have shown that language communication systems emerge at an abrupt phase transition in the fidelity of mappings be...
computer science
34,377
A short proof that $O_2$ is an MCFL
cs.FL
We present a new proof that $O_2$ is a multiple context-free language. It contrasts with a recent proof by Salvati (2015) in its avoidance of concepts that seem specific to two-dimensional geometry, such as the complex exponential function. Our simple proof creates realistic prospects of widening the results to higher ...
computer science
34,378
Self-organization of vocabularies under different interaction orders
cs.CL
Traditionally, the formation of vocabularies has been studied by agent-based models (specially, the Naming Game) in which random pairs of agents negotiate word-meaning associations at each discrete time step. This paper proposes a first approximation to a novel question: To what extent the negotiation of word-meaning a...
computer science
34,379
Modeling self-organization of vocabularies under phonological similarity effects
cs.CL
This work develops a computational model (by Automata Networks) of phonological similarity effects involved in the formation of word-meaning associations on artificial populations of speakers. Classical studies show that in recalling experiments memory performance was impaired for phonologically similar words versus di...
computer science
34,380
Enabling Cognitive Intelligence Queries in Relational Databases using Low-dimensional Word Embeddings
cs.CL
We apply distributed language embedding methods from Natural Language Processing to assign a vector to each database entity associated token (for example, a token may be a word occurring in a table row, or the name of a column). These vectors, of typical dimension 200, capture the meaning of tokens based on the context...
computer science
34,381
Measuring Book Impact Based on the Multi-granularity Online Review Mining
cs.DL
As with articles and journals, the customary methods for measuring books' academic impact mainly involve citations, which is easy but limited to interrogating traditional citation databases and scholarly book reviews, Researchers have attempted to use other metrics, such as Google Books, libcitation, and publisher pres...
computer science
34,382
Towards an Automated Requirements-driven Development of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
cs.SE
The Invariant Refinement Method for Self Adaptation (IRM-SA) is a design method targeting development of smart Cyber-Physical Systems (sCPS). It allows for a systematic translation of the system requirements into the system architecture expressed as an ensemble-based component system (EBCS). However, since the requirem...
computer science
34,383
Shirtless and Dangerous: Quantifying Linguistic Signals of Gender Bias in an Online Fiction Writing Community
cs.CL
Imagine a princess asleep in a castle, waiting for her prince to slay the dragon and rescue her. Tales like the famous Sleeping Beauty clearly divide up gender roles. But what about more modern stories, borne of a generation increasingly aware of social constructs like sexism and racism? Do these stories tend to reinfo...
computer science
34,384
Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins
cs.CL
A short review of similarities between dolphins and humans with the help of quantitative linguistics and information theory.
computer science
34,385
Grammatical Case Based IS-A Relation Extraction with Boosting for Polish
cs.CL
Pattern-based methods of IS-A relation extraction rely heavily on so called Hearst patterns. These are ways of expressing instance enumerations of a class in natural language. While these lexico-syntactic patterns prove quite useful, they may not capture all taxonomical relations expressed in text. Therefore in this pa...
computer science
34,386
The Yahoo Query Treebank, V. 1.0
cs.CL
A description and annotation guidelines for the Yahoo Webscope release of Query Treebank, Version 1.0, May 2016.
computer science
34,387
Different approaches for identifying important concepts in probabilistic biomedical text summarization
cs.CL
Automatic text summarization tools help users in biomedical domain to acquire their intended information from various textual resources more efficiently. Some of the biomedical text summarization systems put the basis of their sentence selection approach on the frequency of concepts extracted from the input text. Howev...
computer science
34,388
Sensorimotor Input as a Language Generalisation Tool: A Neurorobotics Model for Generation and Generalisation of Noun-Verb Combinations with Sensorimotor Inputs
cs.RO
The paper presents a neurorobotics cognitive model to explain the understanding and generalisation of nouns and verbs combinations when a vocal command consisting of a verb-noun sentence is provided to a humanoid robot. This generalisation process is done via the grounding process: different objects are being interacte...
computer science
34,389
Tweet Acts: A Speech Act Classifier for Twitter
cs.CL
Speech acts are a way to conceptualize speech as action. This holds true for communication on any platform, including social media platforms such as Twitter. In this paper, we explored speech act recognition on Twitter by treating it as a multi-class classification problem. We created a taxonomy of six speech acts for ...
computer science
34,390
Textual Paralanguage and its Implications for Marketing Communications
cs.CL
Both face-to-face communication and communication in online environments convey information beyond the actual verbal message. In a traditional face-to-face conversation, paralanguage, or the ancillary meaning- and emotion-laden aspects of speech that are not actual verbal prose, gives contextual information that allows...
computer science
34,391
Classifying discourse in a CSCL platform to evaluate correlations with Teacher Participation and Progress
cs.CY
In Computer-Supported learning, monitoring and engaging a group of learners is a complex task for teachers, especially when learners are working collaboratively: Are my students motivated? What kind of progress are they making? Should I intervene? Is my communication and the didactic design adapted to my students? Our ...
computer science
34,392
SS4MCT: A Statistical Stemmer for Morphologically Complex Texts
cs.IR
There have been multiple attempts to resolve various inflection matching problems in information retrieval. Stemming is a common approach to this end. Among many techniques for stemming, statistical stemming has been shown to be effective in a number of languages, particularly highly inflected languages. In this paper ...
computer science
34,393
Query Expansion with Locally-Trained Word Embeddings
cs.IR
Continuous space word embeddings have received a great deal of attention in the natural language processing and machine learning communities for their ability to model term similarity and other relationships. We study the use of term relatedness in the context of query expansion for ad hoc information retrieval. We dem...
computer science
34,394
An Attentional Neural Conversation Model with Improved Specificity
cs.CL
In this paper we propose a neural conversation model for conducting dialogues. We demonstrate the use of this model to generate help desk responses, where users are asking questions about PC applications. Our model is distinguished by two characteristics. First, it models intention across turns with a recurrent network...
computer science
34,395
Proof nets for the Displacement calculus
cs.LO
We present a proof net calculus for the Displacement calculus and show its correctness. This is the first proof net calculus which models the Displacement calculus directly and not by some sort of translation into another formalism. The proof net calculus opens up new possibilities for parsing and proof search with the...
computer science
34,396
Large scale biomedical texts classification: a kNN and an ESA-based approaches
cs.IR
With the large and increasing volume of textual data, automated methods for identifying significant topics to classify textual documents have received a growing interest. While many efforts have been made in this direction, it still remains a real challenge. Moreover, the issue is even more complex as full texts are no...
computer science
34,397
Using Fuzzy Logic to Leverage HTML Markup for Web Page Representation
cs.IR
The selection of a suitable document representation approach plays a crucial role in the performance of a document clustering task. Being able to pick out representative words within a document can lead to substantial improvements in document clustering. In the case of web documents, the HTML markup that defines the la...
computer science
34,398
Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory for Video Description
cs.MM
Video captioning has been attracting broad research attention in multimedia community. However, most existing approaches either ignore temporal information among video frames or just employ local contextual temporal knowledge. In this work, we propose a novel video captioning framework, termed as \emph{Bidirectional Lo...
computer science
34,399
Constitutional Precedent of Amicus Briefs
cs.CL
We investigate shared language between U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and interest groups' corresponding amicus briefs. Specifically, we evaluate whether language that originated in an amicus brief acquired legal precedent status by being cited in the Court's opinion. Using plagiarism detection software, automate...
computer science
34,400
Gender Inference using Statistical Name Characteristics in Twitter
cs.CL
Much attention has been given to the task of gender inference of Twitter users. Although names are strong gender indicators, the names of Twitter users are rarely used as a feature; probably due to the high number of ill-formed names, which cannot be found in any name dictionary. Instead of relying solely on a name dat...
computer science
34,401
DeepStance at SemEval-2016 Task 6: Detecting Stance in Tweets Using Character and Word-Level CNNs
cs.CL
This paper describes our approach for the Detecting Stance in Tweets task (SemEval-2016 Task 6). We utilized recent advances in short text categorization using deep learning to create word-level and character-level models. The choice between word-level and character-level models in each particular case was informed thr...
computer science
34,402
Fast, Compact, and High Quality LSTM-RNN Based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesizers for Mobile Devices
cs.SD
Acoustic models based on long short-term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) were applied to statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) and showed significant improvements in naturalness and latency over those based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). This paper describes further optimizations of LSTM-RNN-base...
computer science
34,403
Uncertainty in Neural Network Word Embedding: Exploration of Threshold for Similarity
cs.CL
Word embedding, specially with its recent developments, promises a quantification of the similarity between terms. However, it is not clear to which extent this similarity value can be genuinely meaningful and useful for subsequent tasks. We explore how the similarity score obtained from the models is really indicative...
computer science