People tweet more than 100 Million times daily, yielding a noisy, informal, but sometimes informative corpus of 140-character messages that mirrors the zeitgeist in an unprecedent...
Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a relevant role in several Natural Language Processing tasks. Question-Answering (QA) is an example of such, since answers are frequently name...
This paper describes a new scoring algorithm that supports comparison of linguistically annotated data from noisy sources. The new algorithm generalizes the Message Understanding ...
John D. Burger, David D. Palmer, Lynette Hirschman
This paper reports on the annotation of a corpus of 1 million words with four semantic annotation layers, including named entities, coreference relations, semantic roles and spati...
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...