This paper presents a method for categorizing named entities in Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, an anchor text is glossed in a linked HTML text. We formalize named entity categorization as a task of categorizing anchor texts with linked HTML texts which glosses a named entity. Using this representation, we introduce a graph structure in which anchor texts are regarded as nodes. In order to incorporate...

One of the big challenges in understanding text, i.e., constructing an overall coherent representation of the text, is that much information needed in that representation is unstated (implicit). Thus, in order to "fill in the gaps" and create an overall representation, language processing systems need a large amount of world knowledge, and creating those knowledge resources remains a fundamenta...

This quasi-experimental study intended to consider the role of using CALL-based and gloss-mediated vocational vocabulary learning its impact on authentic oral production. The used five different majors (anesthesiology, software, civil engineering, architecture, electronic science); for each major, there were two classes, so researcher conveniently selected one class as control group second expe...