The Web is a huge virtual space where to express and share individual opinions, influencing
any aspect of life, with implications for marketing and communication alike. Social Media are …

After a long history of compilation of our own lexical resources, EDR Japanese/English
Electronic Dictionary, and discussions with major players on development of various …

Abstract The Japanese WordNet currently has 51,000 synsets with Japanese entries. In this
paper, we discuss three methods of extending it: increasing the cover, linking it to examples …

The relation between ontologies and language is currently at the forefront of natural
language processing (NLP). Ontologies, as widely used models in semantic technologies …

Abstract Domain portability and adaptation of NLP components and Word Sense
Disambiguation systems present new challenges. The difficulties found by supervised …

Documenting software architecture rationale is essential to reuse and evaluate
architectures, and several modeling and documentation guidelines have been proposed in …

We revisit the notion of ontology localization, propose a new definition and clearly specify
the layers of an ontology that can be affected by the process of localizing it. We also work out …

Objective: To tackle the extraction of adverse drug reaction events in electronic health
records. The challenge stands in inferring a robust prediction model from highly unbalanced …

Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most
pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to …

The globalisation process our world has undergone since the beginning of the 1980s has
had an important impact on the needs in language for specific purposes (LSP) lexicography …