The present study examined whether surface acted empathy led to decreased burnout among providers of emotional support without adversely affecting recipients. Measures were tested via an in-lab simulated conversation between strangers and through an online survey asking participants about real-life conversations. Study 1 (95 pairs of female participants) had manipulation failure, but still part...

This paper describes changing needs among the communities that exploit language resources and recent LDC activities and publications that support those needs by providing greater volumes of data and associated resources in a growing inventory of languages with ever more sophisticated annotation. Specifically, it covers the evolving role of data centers with specific emphasis on the LDC, the pub...

ARBITER is a Prolog program that extracts assertions about macromolecular binding relationships from biomedical text. We describe the domain knowledge and the underspecified linguistic analyses that support the identification of these predications. After discussing a formal evaluation of ARBITER, we report on its application to 491,000 MEDLINE ~ abstracts, during which almost 25,000 binding rel...

The syntax of English is largely a solved problem. Yet all natural language projects devote a large amount of their effort to developing grammars. The reason for this situation is that there is no very large, generally available grammar of English based on current technology-unification grammar. The solution is to develop a very broad-coverage National Resource Grammar in a unification formalis...

Since its inception in 2010, the Linguistic Data Consortium’s data scholarship program has awarded no cost grants in data to 64 recipients from 24 countries. A survey of the twelve cycles to date – two awards each in the Fall and Spring semesters from Fall 2010 through Spring 2016 – yields an interesting view into graduate program research trends in human language technology and related fields ...