Salience refers to the prominence of information; salient items pop out and capture attention. This volume addresses the role of salience in discourse. It illus

At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence. Implicit in many inve

This book explores speakers’ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic – which is different in many essential res

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2007, held in Rome, Italy in April

This book discusses the state of the art of automated essay scoring, its challenges and its potential. One of the earliest applications of artificial intelligen