Twitter is the largest source of microblog text, responsible for gigabytes of human discourse every day. Processing microblog text is difficult: the genre is noisy, documents have little context, and utterances are very short. As such, conventional NLP tools fail when faced with tweets and other microblog text. We present TwitIE, an open-source NLP pipeline customised to microblog text at every...

A translation memory system stores a data set of source-target pairs of translations. It attempts to respond to a query in the source language with a useful target text from the data set to assist a human translator. Such systems estimate the usefulness of a target text suggestion according to the similarity of its associated source text to the source text query. This study analyses two data se...

This project generates random text based on the patterns of characters in a source file. By analyzing given text for character patterns, random characters can be selected according to the likelihood that it follows any given length k of characters, and the resulting generated text is then outputted to a file. Based on the length k chosen for these ”seeds” of characters, different levels of anal...

News reports are an important source of information about society. Their analysis allows to understand its current interests and to measure the social importance of many events. In this paper, we use the analysis of news as a means to explore the society interests. We present a text mining technique that uncovers trends, discovers associations and detects deviations from news notes. The method ...

A corpus of inference rules between a pair of relation phrases is typically generated using the statistical overlap of argument-pairs associated with the relations (e.g., PATTY, CLEAN). We investigate knowledge-guided linguistic rewrites as a secondary source of evidence and find that they can vastly improve the quality of inference rule corpora, obtaining 27 to 33 point precision improvement w...

News reports are an important source of information about society. Their analysis allows understanding its current interests and measuring the social importance and influence of different events. In this paper, we use the analysis of news as a means to explore the society interests. We focus on the study of a very common phenomenon of news: the influence of the peak news topics on other current...

The relationship between collaboration processes, task strategies and the use of the tools and resources that the computer environment offers, may be crucial for the effects of computer supported collaborative learning. We are interested to find out how, within a computer environment, students collaborate, how they use the different tools we offer and how this influences the quality of the fina...

This paper discusses an open source project1 which provides a framework for working with Indian language scripts using a uniform syllable based text encoding scheme. It also discusses the design and implementation of a multi-platform text editor for 9 Indian languages which was built based on this encoding scheme.