To advance information extraction and question answering technologies toward a more realistic path, the U.S. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) initiated the KBP (Knowledge Base Population) task as one of the TAC (Text Analysis Conference) evaluation tracks. It aims to encourage research in automatic information extraction of named entities from unstructured texts with the ul...

Focusing on the Foto dialect of Dschang (Yemba), an understudied Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, this paper offers a cross-linguistic perspective Cognate Objects (CO). An argument analysis COs is supported by both comparison, e.g. forms corresponding wh-questions, compatibility with strong determiners, quantifiers and possessors, ability to be pronominalized relativized, Dschang-...

Most research into cognitive biases has used Western samples, despite potential East-West socio-cultural differences. One reason is the lack of appropriate measures for non-Westerners. This study is about cross-linguistic equivalence which needs to be established before assessing cross-cultural differences in future research. We developed parallel Mandarin and English measures of interpretation...

Language comparison requires user-friendly tools that facilitate the standardization of linguistic data. We present two resources built on basis a standardized cross-linguistic format and show how data is curated extended. The first resource, Concepticon, reference catalog for concepts from research. While curating we found variety studies in distinct research fields collected informatio...