We propose a new semantic orientation, Excitation, and its automatic acquisition method.
Excitation is a semantic property of predicates that classifies them into excitatory, inhibitory …

Despite the success of large knowledge bases, one kind of knowledge that has not received
attention so far is that of human activities. An example of such an activity is proposing to …

Matsuyoshi, Suguru, etal. A database of relations between predicate argument structures for
recognizing textual entailment and contra diction.” Universal Communication, 2008. ISUC08 …

We show that the count-based Script Induction models of Chambers and Jurafsky (2008)
and Jans et al.(2012) can be unified in a general framework of narrative chain likelihood …

The knowledge about the relation between events is quite useful for coreference resolution,
anaphora resolution, and several NLP applications such as dialogue system. This paper …

We propose a novel method for selecting coherent and diverse responses for a given
dialogue context. The proposed method re-ranks response candidates generated from …

In this paper, we aim to extract causal relations in multiple documents and then overlook the
whole causal chains among the events described in the documents. In order to extract …

Due to the increasing accessibility of online data and the availability of thousands of
documents on the Internet, it becomes very difficult for a human to review and analyze each …

Humans use natural language to communicate with others about the events they observe. In
the form of news articles, blog posts, or even tweets, an overwhelmingly large amount of …

Computers are increasingly expected to make smart decisions based on what humans
consider commonsense. This would require computers to understand their environment …