One of the complex documents in the real world is city maps. In these kinds of maps, text labels overlap by graphics with having a variety of fonts and styles in different orientations. Usually, text and graphic colour is not predefined due to various map publishers. In most city maps, text and graphic lines form a single connected component. Moreover, the common regions of text and graphic lin...

We propose the creation and use of a multilingual parallel news corpus annotated with opinion towards entities, produced by projecting sentiment annotation from one language to several others. The objective is to save annotation time for development and evaluation purposes, and to guarantee comparability of opinion mining evaluation results across languages. By creating this resource, we answer...

This paper describes a word and phrase alignment approach based on a dependency analysis of French/English parallel corpora, referred to as alignment by “syntax-based propagation.” Both corpora are analysed with a deep and robust dependency parser. Starting with an anchor pair consisting of two words that are translations of one another within aligned sentences, the alignment link is propagated...

This paper presents a three-level structuring of multiword terms (MWTs) basing on lexical inclusion, WordNet similarity and a clustering approach. Term clustering by automatic data analysis methods offers an interesting way of organizing a domain’s knowledge structures, useful for several information-oriented tasks like science and technology watch, textmining, computer-assisted ontology popula...

In this paper1, we present an approach to automatically revealing phonological correspondences within historically related languages. We create two bilingual pronunciation dictionaries for the language pairs German-Dutch and GermanEnglish. The data is used for automatically learning phonological similarities between the two language pairs via EMbased clustering. We apply our models to predict f...

background: the comprehension processes are often inferred or explored indirectly through the assessment of the performance of the students on certain tasks. comprehension is typically measured by the techniques in which the test-taker reads a short text and then selects the correct answers in multiple choice questions, true/false and yes/no tasks or matching activities. purpose: a new approach...