This paper discusses automatic acquisition of predicate-argument mapping information from multilingual texts. The lexicon of our NLP system abstracts the language-dependent portion of… (More)
Traditional household economic theory has largely relied on the concept of a “unitary” family decision-making model. Exploiting an exogenous source of variation provided by the extension of alimony… (More)
This paper describes a new discourse module within our multilingual NLP system. Because of its unique data-driven architecture, the discourse module is language-independent. Moreover, the use of… (More)
There has been considerable debate about the effects of targeted global health assistance in low- and middle-income countries on health systems, specifically HIV/AIDS funding. Recently, a handful of… (More)
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To assess the feasibility of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program for adolescents with widespread chronic pain and other functional somatic symptoms and to make preliminary… (More)
In developed countries, most workers depend on government-based social security systems and private company-based pensions to smooth their consumption. In the developing world, the mechanisms are… (More)
SRA used a language-independent, domain-independent, multipurpose text understanding system as the core of the M UC-5 system for extraction from English and Japanese joint venture texts, SRA 's NLP… (More)
This paper describes a multilingual data extraction system under development for the Department of Defense (Do[)). The system, called Murasa.ki, processes Spanish and Japanese newspaper articles… (More)
SRA's knowledge-based natural language processing system SOLOMON has been developed for text under standing since 1986 . In addition to being a domain-independent NLP system, starting in the fall of… (More)