[Abstract] Relation extraction is a subtask of information extraction that aims at obtaining instances of semantic relations present in texts. This information can be arranged in machine-readable formats, useful for several ...

[Abstract] This work presents an Information Retrieval system specifically designed to manage Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts taking into account their peculiarities both at lexical and at encoding level for its ...

[Abstract] This paper explores the incorporation of lexico-semantic heuristics into a deterministic Coreference Resolution (CR) system for classifying named entities at document-level. The highest precise sieves of a CR ...

[Abstract] Digital Heritage deals with the use of computing and information technologies for the preservation and study of the human cultural legacy. Within this context, we present here a Text Retrieval system developed ...

[Abstract] Personality recognition in source code constitutes a novel task in the field of author profiling on written text. In this paper we describe our proposal for the PR-SOCO shared task in FIRE 2016, which is based ...

[Abstract] We introduce a “Chunk-and-Pass” parsing technique influenced by a psycholinguistic model, where linguistic information is processed not word-by-word but rather in larger chunks of words. We present preliminary ...

[Abstract] Progress made in recent years has led to a growing interest in Digital Heritage. This article focuses on Egyptology and, more specifically, the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian scripts. We present a ...

[Abstract] Objective sentences lack sentiments and, hence, can reduce the accuracy of a sentiment classifier. Traditional methods prior to 2001 used hand-crafted templates to identify subjectivity and did not generalize ...

[Abstract] User-generated content published on microblogging social platforms constitutes an invaluable source of information for diverse purposes: health surveillance, business intelligence, political analysis, etc. We ...

[Abstract] Dealing with negation in a proper way is a relevant factor in order to obtain high performance sentiment analysis systems. In this framework, we present a method for the treatment of negation in Spanish that ...