We address the problem of automatically generating concise factual questions from linguistically complex sentences in reading materials. We discuss semantic and pragmatic issues that appear in complex sentences, and then we present an algorithm for extracting simplified sentences from appositives, subordinate clauses, and other constructions. We conjecture that our method is useful as a prelimi...

Several authors have argued that a range of phenomena calls for a relativisation of propositional truth to contexts of assessment or, more generally, perspectives. I want to defend the more orthodox view that whether a proposition is true depends only on whether the represented states of affairs obtain. I offer an alternative account of the relativity suggested by the data, factual relativism, ...

In circumstances where the receptivity of the online news is affected by the media bias in covering public attention events, the quality of the textual component is of pervasive importance for a reliable perception of their informativeness. Aware of this threat, several natural language processing techniques have been developed for the purpose of capturing the quality of the web content based o...

Recent models can generate fluent and grammatical synthetic reviews while accurately predicting user ratings. The generated reviews, expressing users' estimated opinions towards related products, are often viewed as natural language ‘rationales’ for the jointly predicted rating. However, previous studies found that existing repetitive, universally applicable, generic explanations, resulting in ...