ICCPOL
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. For casual web users, a natural language is more accessible than formal query languages. However, understanding of a natural language query is not trivial for computer sy...
IDEAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
Conversational agent is a system that provides user with proper information and maintains the context of dialogue based on natural language. When experts design the network for con...
ICMI
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
Many user interfaces, from graphic design programs to navigation aids in cars, share a virtual space with the user. Such applications are often ideal candidates for speech interfa...
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
We describe a system for extracting mentions of terms such as company and product names, in a large and noisy corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web. Since natural langua...
CICLING
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
This paper presents a graph-theoretical approach to lexical disambiguation on word co-occurrences. Producing a dictionary similar to WordNet, this method is the counterpart to word...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
This paper presents an algorithm to generate possible variants for biomedical terms. The algorithm gives each variant its generation probability representing its plausibility, whi...
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
We address the problem of improving the efficiency of natural language text input under degraded conditions (for instance, on PDAs or cell phones or by disabled users) by taking a...
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
Computational humor will be needed in interfaces, no less than other cognitive capabilities. There are many practical settings where computational humor will add value. Among them...
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...