Information-extraction (IE) research typically focuses on clean-text inputs. However, an IE engine serving real applications yields many false alarms due to less-well-formed input. For example, IE in a multilingual broadcast processing system has to deal with inaccurate automatic transcription and translation. The resulting presence of non-target-language text in this case, and non-language mat...

To the Editor: The excellent article on measures for controlling plague in Alghero, Sardinia, describes the procedures introduced by the Calabrian doctor Quinto Tiberio Angelerio (1532–1617) to combat an outbreak during 1582–1583 (1). The authors cite 2 works published by Angelerio relating to these events, Ectypa (1588) (2) and Epidemiologìa (1598) (3). To say that Epidemiologìa was written on...

The rapidly growing biomedical literature has been a challenging target for natural language processing algorithms. One of the tasks these algorithms focus on is called named entity recognition (NER), often employed to tag gene mentions. Here we describe a new approach for this task, an approach that uses graphbased semi-supervised learning to train a Conditional Random Field (CRF) model. Bench...

In many contexts, pronouns are interpreted as referring to the character mentioned first in the previous sentence, an effect called the 'first-mention bias'. While adults can rapidly use the first-mention bias to guide pronoun interpretation, it is unclear when this bias emerges during development. Curiously, experiments with children between two and three years old show successful use of order...

This paper describes an application of reinforcement learning to the mention detection task. We define a novel action-based formulation for the mention detection task, in which a model can flexibly revise past labeling decisions by grouping together tokens and assigning partial mention labels. We devise a method to create mention-level episodes and we train a model by rewarding correctly labele...

Sebagai salah satu toko yang memproduksi dan mendesain barang sendiri, brand fashion “serupa apparel” perlu melakukan analisa kebutuhan peminatan pasar terhadap desain akan dijual. Brand berusaha analisis minat konsumen desain-desain dipasarkan. Pada kegiatan ini, tim pengusul memanfaatkan software social mention guna mencari menganalisis sentiment, strength, passion serta reach dari hasil revi...

Introduction quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not. 1 The present document is about time, in at least two respects. Firstly, it gives a description of my scientific work over the time since the completion of my PhD thesis [85]. Secondly, this te...