A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts f...
When humans approach the task of text categorization, they interpret the specific wording of the document in the much larger context of their background knowledge and experience. ...
In this paper, we present a new approximation in Natural Language Processing (nlp) aimed at knowledge representation and acquisition using a formal syntactic frame. In practice, we...
This paper introduces the use of Wikipedia as a resource for automatic keyword extraction and word sense disambiguation, and shows how this online encyclopedia can be used to achi...
In this paper, we address the task of crosslingual semantic relatedness. We introduce a method that relies on the information extracted from Wikipedia, by exploiting the interlang...