Numerous important events happen everyday and everywhere but are reported in different
media sources with different narrative styles. How to detect whether real-world events have …

We are trying to extend the boundary of Information Extraction (IE) systems. Existing IE
systems require a lot of time and human effort to tune for a new scenario. Preemptive …

In this report we present the overall architecture for the NYU English ACE 2005 system. We
focus on two components which were evaluated this year: reference resolution, where we …

Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses
about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools …

With the increasing amount of data and the exploding number data sources, the extraction of
information about events, whether from the perspective of acquiring knowledge or from a …

Especially for English, the number of hand-coded electronic resources available to the
Natural Language Processing Community keeps growing: annotated corpora, treebanks …

Event extraction is an important natural language processing (NLP) task of identifying events
in an unstructured text. Although a plethora of works deal with event extraction from new …

Le présent article s' intéresse à la détection et à la désambiguïsation des comparaisons
figuratives. Il décrit un algorithme qui utilise un analyseur syntaxique de surface (chunker) et …

We present GLARF, a framework for representing three linguistic levels and systems for
generating this representation. We focus on a logical level, like LFG's F-structure, but …

While initial treebanks and treebank parsers primarily involved surface analysis, recent work
focuses on predicate argument (PA) structure. PA structure provides means to regularize …