Speech conveys many things beyond content, including aspects of stance and attitude that have not been much studied. Considering 14 aspects of stance as they occur in radio news stories, we investigated the extent to which they could be inferred from prosody. By using time-spread prosodic features and by aggregating local estimates, many aspects of stance were at least somewhat predictable, wit...

BACKGROUND: To achieve good performance, taekwondo athletes should optimize the stance position of the foot on the ground. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to compare generated net joint power (hip, knee and ankle) during stance phase, magnitude of peak foot velocity of the attacking lower extremity and execution stance time produced from three stance positions (forward “0°”, diagonal “45°”,...

We argue that all primates primarily perceive the actions of conspecifics as meaningful expressions of agency. Social understanding is a perceptual capacity that does not require human reason or imagination. Conversely, only humans have an additional, sophisticated ability to decontextualize and objectify actions into abstract movements. We thereby turn the traditional consensus on its head: wh...

In this article we present the result of the recent research in the recognition and normalisation of Polish temporal expressions. The temporal information extracted from the text plays major role in many information extraction systems, like question answering, event recognition or discourse analysis. We proposed a new method for the temporal expressions normalisation, called Cascade of Partial ...

Different types •Date: On May 22, 1995, Farkas was ... •Time: ... in Brownsville around 7:15 p.m. •Duration: He spent six days abroad ... •Set: ... for liver transplants each year ... Different occurrences in documents • explicit easy to normalize • implicit knowledge is needed • relative reference time is needed (& additional information) Annotation scheme •TimeML: ISO standard for temporal an...

This paper describes NCU IISR’s Japanese ICD-10 Code Linking system for NTCIR-11 MedNLP. Our system uses Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to label ICD-10 mentions and temporal expressions. We also use CRFs to detect the modalities of the ICD-10 mentions. To resolve the problem of ICD-10 mention normalization, we use the Lucene engine to link mentions to the corresponding ICD-10 database entries...