Our work deals with calendar information as it is expressed in natural language (NL), that is to say through textual units such as prepositional phrases or noun phrases (e.g. in the 90s, at the beginning of the XVth century). We call these textual units Calendar Expressions (CE). Our work aims at showing how Information Retrieval systems can benefit from dealing with CE. In this paper we descri...

We address the problem of integrating textual and visual information in vector space models for word meaning representation. We first present the Residual CCA (R-CCA) method, that complements the standard CCA method by representing, for each modality, the difference between the original signal and the signal projected to the shared, max correlation, space. We then show that constructing visual ...

Product classification is the task of automatically predicting a taxonomy path for a product in a predefined taxonomy hierarchy given a textual product description or title. For efficient product classification we require a suitable representation for a document (the textual description of a product) feature vector and efficient and fast algorithms for prediction. To address the above challenge...

Many modelling languages have both a textual and a graphical form. The relationship between these two forms ought to be clear and concrete, but is instead commonly underspecified, weak, and informal. Further, processes and tool support for modelling often do not treat both forms as first-class citizens, instead choosing to favour one as the “real” representation and the other as a derivable rep...

Natural Language is not appropriate for reference models because it risks being an in-complete, unstructured and inconsistent form of representation. This paper presents insights into a qualitative study examining both textual descriptions and semi-formal models based on ITIL. The conclusion is that a hybrid approach of models and textual extended explanations and definitions is the best approa...

This paper compares language modeling techniques for dialog act segmentation of multiparty meetings. The evaluation is twofold; we search for a convenient representation of textual information and an efficient modeling approach. The textual features capture word identities, parts-of-speech, and automatically induced classes. The models under examination include hidden event language models, max...

A compiler-compiler for visual languages is presented. It has been designed as a framework for building visual programming environments that translate schemas into textual representation as well as into programs representing the deep meaning of schemas. The deep semantics is implemented by applying attribute grammars to schema languages; attribute dependencies are implemented as methods of Java...

The following formalization is inspired from [2]. We first describe notations, assumptions, and meta-variables required for defining the abstract syntax and the semantics of the MultiDim model. Next, we give the abstract syntax of the model that allows the translation from the graphical representation to the equivalent textual representation. Finally, after describing the auxiliary functions, w...

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