In this post, you can find the links to the free online course on Natural Language that Professor Dan Jurafsky & Chris Manning offered on Coursera in 2012. It was a very successful and well-designed course. It is an ideal…
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Summary: Looking for Corpora…
Dear All, In this post I collect all the suggestions I got for the following request: “Looking for Corpora in….” http://www.forum.santini.se/2014/03/looking-for-corpora-to-explore-cross-linguality/ Big thanks to (hope I have not forgotten anybody): Johannes Heinecke, Dominika Rogozinska, Mohamed-Zakaria KURDI, Bartosz Ziólko, Olga Whelan,…
Distributional Semantics applied to Flickr® Tags
Upcoming Publications MARIANNA BOLOGNESI, International Center for Intercultural Exchange marianna.bolognesi@gmail.com Distributional Semantics meets Embodied Cognition: Flickr® as a database of semantic features Selected Papers from the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (in press) Distributional models such as Latent Semantic Analysis…
Towards a Safer Web (with Language Technology)
Last Updated: 25 June 2013 On 18 June 2013, I attended an interesting conference on cybersecurity. The conference was held in one of the conference rooms at the Police Academy in Rome*. The title of the conference was “Critical Infrastructure…
Dissemination: A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness (2012)
A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness by Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Information Processing & Management, In Press, Available online 30 October 2012 Abstract Search systems are limited by their…
Dissemination: Cross-Genre and Cross-Domain Detection of Semantic Uncertainty (2012)
Cross-Genre and Cross-Domain Detection of Semantic Uncertainty György Szarvas, Veronika Vincze, Richárd Farkas, György Móra, Iryna Gurevych* Computational Linguistics, June 2012, Vol. 38, No. 2, Pages 335-367 Uncertainty is an important linguistic phenomenon that is relevant in various Natural…
Dissemination: Stable Classification of Text Genres (2011)
Stable Classification of Text Genres Philipp Petrenz and Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) Computational Linguistics, June 2011, Vol. 37, No. 2, Pages 385-393 Abstract Every text has at least one topic and at least one genre. Evidence for a…
Thesis Review: Cross-Language Ontology Learning
Hjelm, Hans (2009) Cross-language Ontology Learning. Incorporating and Exploiting Cross-language Data in the Ontology Learning Process. Academic dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Linguistics at Stockholm University, 2009. Permalink: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8414 Review by Marina Santini The…
Towards a Computational Theory of Digital Genre (I): Working Definition of Genres for Computational Purposes
Towards a Computational Theory of Digital Genre (I): Working Definition of Genres for Computational Purposes by Marina Santini – Last Updated: 29 Oct 2012 1. What is a (textual) genre? • A genre is a class of texts with similar…
Dissemination: Multi-Labeling Web Pages by Genre
Excerpts from: Chaker Jebari. MLICC: A Multi-Label and Incremental Centroid-Based Classification of Web Pages by Genre. NLDB 2012: 183-190. For the full version, please contact: jebarichaker@yahoo.fr Evaluation Corpus In our approach we used the corpus MGC. This corpus was…