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Economic Evaluation of Young Carers’ Interventions Crossroads Caring for Carers and the Princess Royal Trust for Carers

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DPByrnes Not so very long ago a solitary skier was making his rapid way down a lonely mountain when he miscalculated and launched himself over a precipice. He was falling to what he thought was certain death when he managed to grab the proverbial small bush projecting from the cliff face. He hung in abject terror for some moments and then began to call out for help. "Is anyone out there?" he cr...

Improving Mention Detection Robustness to Noisy Input

Information-extraction (IE) research typically focuses on clean-text inputs. However, an IE engine serving real applications yields many false alarms due to less-well-formed input. For example, IE in a multilingual broadcast processing system has to deal with inaccurate automatic transcription and translation. The resulting presence of non-target-language text in this case, and non-language mat...

Using mention accessibility to improve coreference resolution

Modern coreference resolution systems require linguistic and general knowledge typically sourced from costly, manually curated resources. Despite their intuitive appeal, results have been mixed. In this work, we instead implement fine-grained surface-level features motivated by cognitive theory. Our novel fine-grained feature specialisation approach significantly improves the performance of a s...

Joint Mention Extraction and Classification with Mention Hypergraphs

We present a novel model for the task of joint mention extraction and classification. Unlike existing approaches, our model is able to effectively capture overlapping mentions with unbounded lengths. The model is highly scalable, with a time complexity that is linear in the number of words in the input sentence and linear in the number of possible mention classes. Our model can be extended to a...