This article describes a corpus of news texts in Brazilian Portuguese. News were collected from four big newswire outlets, segmented in paragraphs, and marked up by a group of four annotators, who had to classify each paragraph according to two dimensions: target entity (that is the person which is the main subject of the news contained in the paragraph), and the paragraph’s polarity with respe...

This paper presents the SeeDev Task of the BioNLP Shared Task 2016. The purpose of the SeeDev Task is the extraction from scientific articles of the descriptions of genetic and molecular mechanisms involved in seed development of the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. The SeeDev task consists in the extraction of many different event types that involve a wide range of entity types so that they ...

Many reinforcement learning (RL) research papers contain paragraphs that define Markov decision processes (MDPs). These paragraphs take up space that could otherwise be used to present more useful content. In this paper we specify a notation for MDPs that can be used by other papers. Declaring the use this notation using a single sentence can replace several paragraphs of notational specificati...

A basic system for acquisition, reconstruction and simulation of real objects (ERSO) is presented. Our approach is to combine the knowledge of different research areas as photogrammetric, computer graphics, and computer vision to develop new techniques for generating three-dimensional models from images. The first two paragraphs give an introduction and overview of the system architecture. The ...

We developed a Web search system called " Cyclone " , which extracts high quality term descriptions and helps users to obtain encyclopedic knowledge efficiently. In the current implementation , multiple paragraph-style descriptions extracted from different Web pages are presented in response to a user keyword. However, to obtain sufficient information for a single keyword, a user usually has to...

This paper describes the WiLI-2018 benchmark dataset for monolingual written natural language identification. WiLI-2018 is a publicly available,1 free of charge dataset of short text extracts from Wikipedia. It contains 1000 paragraphs of 235 languages, totaling in 235 000 paragraphs. WiLI is a classification dataset: Given an unknown paragraph written in one dominant language, it has to be dec...

This paper presents the SeeDev Task of the BioNLP Shared Task 2016. The purpose of the SeeDev Task is the extraction from scientific articles of the descriptions of genetic and molecular mechanisms involved in seed development of the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. The SeeDev task consists in the extraction of many different event types that involve a wide range of entity types so that they ...

In the above article [1] , on pages 11 and 14, math appears incorrectly in some paragraphs.

In 4 experiments, the authors evaluated the hypothesis that performance predictions for text are based on ease of processing. In each experiment, participants read texts, predicted their performance for each one, and then were tested. Ease of processing was manipulated by having participants read texts that varied in coherence. Coherence was varied by manipulating causal relatedness across sent...

Event detection, an important task in organizational environmental scanning, is to identify the onset of new events from streams of news stories. Existing event detection techniques identify whether a news story contains an unseen event generally by comparing the similarity between features of a new news story and past news stories. However, for illustration and comparison purposes, a news stor...