Recent comparative studies have demonstrated the usefulness of dependencybased contexts (DEPS) for learning distributed word representations for similarity tasks. In English, DEPS tend to perform better than the more common, less informed bag-of-words contexts (BOW). In this paper, we present the first crosslinguistic comparison of different context types for three different languages. DEPS are...

This paper addresses the problem of sentiment analysis in an informal setting in multiple domains and in two languages. We explore the influence of using background knowledge in the form of different sentiment lexicons, as well as the influence of various lexical surface features. We evaluate several different feature set combination strategies. We show that the improvement resulting from using...

One of the objectives of sentiment analysis is to classify the polarity of conveyed opinions from the perspective of textual evidence. Most of the work in the field has been intensively applied to the English language and only few experiments have explored other languages. In this paper, we present a supervised classification of posts in French online forums where sentiment analysis is based on...

English. Commercial products labelled as smart devices usually recur to a centralised system that processes all the requests. A distributed model, where nodes independently interact with the environment, may provide a widespread support for both users and other devices. In the latter setup, each entity has a partial awareness about defines the requests accepted by the network, and this aspect c...

We present the system we built for participating in the PAN-2016 Author Profiling Task [9]. The task asked to predict the gender and the age group of a person given several samples of his/her writing, and it was offered for three different languages: English, Spanish, and Dutch. We participated in both subtasks, for all three languages. Our approach focused on extracting genre-agnostic features...

This paper reports our submissions to community question answering task in SemEval2015, which consists of two subtasks: (1) predict the quality of answers to given question as good, bad, or potentially relevant and (2) identify yes, no or unsure response to a given YES/NO question based on the good answers identified by subtask 1. For both subtasks, we adopted supervised classification method a...

This PDF was generated from an article on http://drhoffman.com/ © 2017 Ronald L. Hoffman MD, PC. All Rights Reserved | 1 Archeological evidence suggests that tea leaves steeped in boiling water were consumed as many as 5,000 years ago. Botanical evidence indicates that India and China were among the first countries to cultivate tea. Although the English are known for their love of tea, American...

The translation choice and transfer modules in an English Chinese machine translation system are introduced. The translation choice is realized on basis of a grammar tree and takes the context as a word bag, with the lexicon and POS tag information as context features. The Bayes minimal error probability is taken as the evaluation function of the candidate translation. The rule-based transfer a...