This work proposes the integration of a temporal expressions recognition, resolution and normalization system into a question answering system for Spanish. Both question analysis and answer extraction stages have been adapted to the new capabilities for temporal detection and inference of the system. It has been evaluated by means of a corpus composed of questions that has been originally devel...

This report describes a minimalistic set of methods engineered to anchor clinical events onto a temporal space. Specifically, we describe methods to extract clinical events (e.g., Problems, Treatments and Tests), temporal expressions (i.e., time, date, duration, and frequency), and temporal links (e.g., Before, After, Overlap) between events and temporal entities. These methods are developed an...

Nowadays, the temporal aspects of natural language are receiving a great research interest. TimeML has been adopted as a standard for temporal information annotation by a large number of researchers. Available TimeML resources are very limited in size and in diversity of languages. This paper analyzes a combination of semantic roles and semantic networks information for improving this situation...

We present and demonstrate the updated version of the TARSQI Toolkit, a suite of temporal processing modules that extract temporal information from natural language texts. It parses the document and identifies temporal expressions, recognizes events, anchor events to temporal expressions and orders events relative to each other. The toolkit was previously demonstrated at COLING 2008, but has si...

We present an approach for detecting salient (important) dates in texts in order to automatically build event timelines from a search query (e.g. the name of an event or person, etc.). This work was carried out on a corpus of newswire texts in English provided by the Agence France Presse (AFP). In order to extract salient dates that warrant inclusion in an event timeline, we first recognize and...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

We present a real-time system which allows musicians to interact with synthetic virtual characters as they perform. Using Max/MSP to parameterize keyboard and vocal input, meaningful features (pitch, amplitude, chord information, and vocal timbre) are extracted from live performance in real-time. These extracted musical features are then mapped to character behaviour in such a way that the musi...

The ideation, conception and implementation of new musical interfaces and instruments provide more than the mere construction of digital objects. As physical and digital assemblages, interfaces also act as traces of the authoring entities that created them. Their intentions, likes, dislikes, and ultimate determinations of what is creatively useful all get embedded into the available choices of ...

Suffix arrays are more efficient than inverted files for solving complex queries in a number of applications related to text databases. Examples arise when dealing with biological or musical data or with texts written in oriental languages, and when searching for phrases, approximate patterns and, in general, regular expressions involving separators. In this paper we propose algorithms for proc...