Fill-in-the-blank items are commonly featured in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) systems. An item displays a sentence with a blank, and often proposes a number of choices for filling it. These choices should include one correct answer and several plausible distractors. We describe a system that, given an English corpus, automatically generates distractors to produce items for preposi...

In designing intelligent web based educational systems different student needs and preferences should be taken into consideration. Personalization of a system usually results in an increase in its effectiveness, which can be measured by the degree to which learning outcomes are achieved. However, taking into account the individual requirements of each learner and adjusting the system to their n...

The Basque pro-independence terrorist group ETA (an acronym for what translates to ‘Freedom the Country’) announced a definitive ceasefire in 2011. A year later, I began PhD on how conflict could be understood from life stories of activists. After completing my research, asked myself: What kind tensions emerged during interview process with activists who collaborated research taking into accoun...

Document-level sentiment analysis can benefit from fine-grained subjectivity, so that sentiment polarity judgments are based on the relevant parts of the document. While finegrained subjectivity annotations are rarely available, encouraging results have been obtained by modeling subjectivity as a latent variable. However, latent variable models fail to capitalize on our linguistic knowledge abo...

Subjectivity analysis has been actively used in various applications such as opinion mining of customer reviews in online review sites, question-answering in CQA sites, multi-document summarization, etc. However, there has been very little focus on subjectivity analysis in the domain of online forums. Online forums contain huge amounts of user-generated data in the form of discussions between f...