This paper proposes a novel algorithm for multilingual mention detection: we extract mentions from parse trees via kernelbased SVM learning. Our approach allows for straightforward mention detection for any language where (not necessary perfect) parsing resources are available, without any complex language-specific rule engineering. We also investigate possibilities for incorporating automatica...

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...

The traditional theory of irony, which assumes that an ironist uses a figurative meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the utterance, is shown to be inadequate; an alternative theory is presented, which assumes that the ironist mentions the literal meaning of the utterance and expresses an attitude toward it. Although the implications for understanding irony are difficult to test, the two ...

This paper presents results of an experiment integrating information from valency dictionary of Polish into a mention detection system. Two types of information is acquired: positions of syntactic schemata for nominal and verbal constructs and secondary prepositions present in schemata. The syntactic schemata are used to prevent (for verbal realizations) or encourage (for nominal groups) constr...

This paper analyses the automatic email signatures (ASs) of 200 academics. Qualitative and quantitative ASs reveal that they are often written in one language, only occasionally two, English being a frequent choice. The contain information with primarily identificatory function, promotional socialising function. Despite absence clearly compulsory components, typical structure can be identified ...

We analyse volume-preserving actions of product groups on Riemannian manifolds. Under a natural spectral irreducibility assumption, we prove the following dichotomy: Either the action is measurably isometric, in which case there are at most two factors; or the action is infinitesimally linear, which means that the derivative cocycle arises from unbounded linear representations of all factors. A...

We propose the use of finite Fourier series as an alternative means of representing ovals in projective planes of even order. As an example to illustrate the method’s potential, we show that the set {w +w +w : 0 ≤ j ≤ 2} ⊂ GF(2) forms an oval if w is a primitive (2 +1) root of unity in GF(2) and GF(2) is viewed as an affine plane over GF(2). For the verification, we only need some elementary “t...