c○2009 The Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

c○2009 The Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

c○2009 The Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

Analysis of Language Legislation of All 85 Russian Federation’s Subjects (Regions)

The analysis of the language legislation of all 85 subjects of the Russian Federation shows complete heterogeneity and diversity. Common legal guidelines in Federal law do not exist, because Federal legislation is obsolete and is largely whitespace and conflict. The subjects of the Russian Federation, on whose territory different ethnic groups, both large and indigenous, historically live, solv...

Research on Chinese discourse rhetorical structure representation scheme and corpus annotation

It is well-known that interpretation of a text requires understanding of its rhetorical relation hierarchy since discourse units rarely exist in isolation. Such discourse structure is fundamental to document-level applications, such as text understanding, summarization, knowledge extraction and question-answering. In comparison with English, there are only a few studies on Chinese discourse ana...

Multilingual Natural Language Processing

With rapidly growing online resources, such as Wikipedia, Twitter, or Facebook, there is an increasing number of languages that have a Web presence, and correspondingly there is a growing need for effective solutions for multilingual natural language processing. In this talk, I will explore the hypothesis that a multilingual representation can enrich the feature space for natural language proce...