In Semantic Textual Similarity, systems rate the degree of semantic equivalence between two text snippets. This year, the participants were challenged with new data sets for English, as well as the introduction of Spanish, as a new language in which to assess semantic similarity. For the English subtask, we exposed the systems to a diversity of testing scenarios, by preparing additional OntoNot...

INTRODUCTION We aim to compare the interpretation of health news items reported with or without spin. 'Spin' is defined as a misrepresentation of study results, regardless of motive (intentionally or unintentionally) that overemphasises the beneficial effects of the intervention and overstates safety compared with that shown by the results. METHODS AND ANALYSIS We have planned a series of 16 ...

Spotting by Association method for video analysis is a novel method to detect video segments with typical semantics. Video data contains various kinds of information through continuous images, natural language, and sound. For videos to be stored and retrieved in a Digital Library, it is essential to segment the video data into meaningful pieces. To detect meaningful segments, we need to identif...

This paper proposes a method that predicts attractive evaluation objects. In the learning phase, the method inductively acquires trend rules from complex sequential data. The data is composed of two types of data. One is numerical sequential data. Each evaluation object has respective numerical sequential data. The other is text sequential data. Each evaluation object is described in texts. The...

This paper presents our approach to the problem of single sentence summarisation. We investigate the use of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to guide the generation of a summary towards the theme that is the focus of the document to be summarised. In doing so, the intuition is that the generated summary will more accurately reflect the content of the source document. Currently, we operate in ...

Disaster concentrates the mind wonderfully. The Shelton tragedy forced M.P.s to grapple with mental illness once more in Parliament's spring term after a long lull in which national economic troubles claimed their attention to the exclusion of almost all else. Mr. Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, finally agreed ?and to be fair, without too much reluctance?to hold the Shelton inquiry in...

Incidents of verbal and physical patient abuse in health care settings continue to occur, with some making headline news. Nurses have a professional and ethical responsibility to advocate for their patients when incidents of abuse occur. Tolerating or ignoring inappropriate behaviors occurs for multiple reasons, including ignorance, fear of retaliation, the need for peer acceptance, and concern...

The aims of this study are to give a principled description of a widely experienced register---Chinese display advertisements (henceforth CDA)-----and to further explore the nature of register and register variation. The study postulates that while the demand for speed and efficiency of communication should result in language economy in the CDA register, an interplay of multiple linguistic and ...