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Metaphor is Generic
(2008)
An approach to sense extension tailored for polysemy associated with non-literal language expanded to include belief revision generally.
The relationship between metaphor and genericity as rhetorical devices is discussed, ...
Leveraging Sub-class Partition Information in Binary Classification and Its Application
(Springer, 2009)
Sub-class partition information within positive and negative classes is
often ignored by a binary classifier, even when these detailed background
information is available at hand. It is expected that this kind of ...
Dynamic semantics for metaphor
(2001)
An intensional logic with dynamic interpretation is presented in order to provide a formal
semantics for sense extension, lexical ambiguity and metaphoricity. Intensionality is
required in order to provide the right ...
Spam filters: Bayes vs. Chi-Squared; letters vs. words
(ACM, 2003)
We compare two statistical methods for identifying spam or junk electronic mail. Spam
filters are classifiers which determine whether an email is junk or not. The proliferation of
spam email has made electronic filtering ...
Testing the Reliability of an Authorship Identification Method
(Trinity College Dublin, 2004)
Forensic linguists try to nd irregularities in language use, as irregularities provide
'signature' information that may withstand legal tests of certainty about,
for example, authorship identication. Irregularities ...
Inducing a cline from corpora of political manifestos
(ACM, 2003)
Techniques from corpus linguistics are applied to the analysis of a number of European
right-wing parties in an effort to extend methods for ranking parties on a left-right spectrum
within and across countries and ...
Non-Local Contexts Help Resolve Ambiguity
(2006)
This paper addresses nonlocal context effects in the
interpretation of ambiguous utterances in natural language.
We examine equivocation as a form of discourse
ambiguity and demonstrate that nonlocal contexts can
resolve ...
Robust chart parsing with mildly inconsistent feature structures
(University of Edinburgh, 1995)
We introduce the formal underpinnings of our theory of nonclassical feature structures
The resulting expanded universe of feature structures has direct implications for robust
parsing for linguistic theories founded ...
Comparing SpamAssassin with CBDF email filtering
(2004)
In this paper, we compare the email filtering
software SpamAssassin with a statistical
email filter, known as chi by degrees of freedom.
We examine SpamAssassin?s filtering techniques
and ascertain their effectiveness. ...
Cross-serial dependencies are not hard to process
(1996)
Crossserial dependencies in Dutch and
SwissGerman are the only known extra
context free natural language syntactic
phenomena Psycholinguistic evidence
suggests crossserial orderings tend to be
easier to process ...