After storm-induced torrential rains have devastated many locales in recent years, it seems appropriate to trot out this old gem of pres ...

Today’s topic is going to be a bit technical. Although it centres on three common grammatical elements, it involves some technicalities, the type we usually want to as much as possible play down in ...

Keeping English prose trim and slim should be every writer's goal. But this doesn't mean sticking to simple declarative sentences all the time. Good prose must not only be concise and clear, but must ...

@inproceedings{conia-navigli-2022-probing, title = "Probing for Predicate Argument Structures in Pretrained Language Models", author = "Conia, Simone and Navigli, Roberto", booktitle = "Proceedings of ...

Abstract: Video captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions for a given video clip. Existing methods mainly focus on end-to-end representation learning via word-by-word comparison ...

Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...

Abstract: We introduce a unifying framework for proving that predicate P is hard-core for a one-way function f, and apply it to a broad family of functions and predicates, reproving old results in an ...

This repository contains code for the paper "Fine-Grained Predicates Learning for Scene Graph Generation (CVPR 2022)". This code is based on Scene-Graph-Benchmark.pytorch. News: An extented verison of ...

Predicate pushdown is a widely adopted query optimization. Existing systems and prior work mostly use pattern-matching rules to decide when a predicate can be pushed through certain operators like ...

New poems commissioned by The Verb for the BBC centenary.

Differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence (II) Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a ...