On the speech side of the bridge is the visual material within each panel. Indeed, the absence of an immediate contextual envelop is a primary factor distinguishing writing from speech. In comic books, however, each illustration supplies a visual context through which the reader easily enters the instantial world. She/He sees characters operating within their world, characters who in turn see a...

For many linguistic investigations, the first step is to find examples. In the 21st century, they should all be found, not invented. Thus linguists need flexible tools for finding even quite rare phenomena. To support linguists well, they need to be fast even where corpora are very large and queries are complex. We present extensions to the CQL ’Corpus Query Language’ for intuitive creation of ...

When interacting with a system, users often request information about an entity by specifying a string that may have multiple possible interpretations. Humans are quite good at recognizing when an ambiguity exists and resolving the ambiguity given contextual cues. This disambiguation task is more complicated in automated systems. As systems have more and more different entities and entity types...

The traditional preference mining setting, referred to here as the batch setting, has been widely studied in the literature in recent years. However, the dynamic nature of the problem of mining preferences increasingly requires solutions that quickly adapt to change. The main reason for this is that frequently user’s preferences are not static and can evolve over time. In this paper, we formall...