This article seeks to challenge the notion that concept of agro-extractivism be restricted crops destined for export with little or no processing. Based on a study agave and tequila production in Mexico, it argues domestic processing biomass does not change nor necessarily compensate negative social environmental impacts upstream agricultural activities; can fact add them. We seek demonstrate t...

Cross-lingual information extraction is the task of distilling facts from foreign language (e.g. Chinese text) into representations in another language that is preferred by the user (e.g. English tuples). Conventional pipeline solutions decompose the task as machine translation followed by information extraction (or vice versa). We propose a joint solution with a neural sequence model, and show...