Taking entity mention extraction, relation extraction and event extraction as points of view, the main part of this thesis presents a novel sentence-level joint IE framework based on structured prediction and inexact search. ...

Neurons are the fundamental unit of the nervous system, their function being to receive and propagate electrochemical signals. Due to this role, neurons can be exceptionally large cells with specialized subdomains known ...

Fluoxetine and citalopram are among the top five most prescribed antidepressants in the United States. These compounds and other pharmaceuticals are currently discharged in wastewater effluent with no national standards ...

Knowledge Bases (KBs) have become a functional utility as a repository of information for both humans and software agents to seek confirmed facts about the world. With the wide-ranging application of KBs, automatically ...

Deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in many different fields over the past years thanks to advanced algorithmic techniques; great computational power provided by processors; and, most importantly, tremendous ...