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IEEEICCI
2003
IEEE
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Mixing Semantic Networks and Conceptual Vectors: The Case of Hyperonymy
In this paper, we focus on lexical semantics, a key issue in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that tends to converge with conceptual Knowledge Representation (KR) and ontologies....
Violaine Prince, Mathieu Lafourcade
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Dialogue Based Shared Control of Navigating Robots
Establishing a clean relationship between a robot’s spatial model and natural language components is a non-trivial task, but is key to designing verbally controlled, navigating s...
Robert J. Ross, Hui Shi, Tillman Vierhuff, Bernd K...
NLDB
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Lightweight Natural Language Database Interfaces
Most natural language database interfaces suffer from the translation knowledge portability problem, and are vulnerable to ill-formed questions because of their deep analysis. To a...
In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na, Jong-Hyeok Lee, Gijoo Y...
MKM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Flexible Encoding of Mathematics on the Computer
This paper reports on refinements and extensions to the MathLang framework that add substantial support for natural language text. We show how the extended framework supports mult...
Fairouz Kamareddine, Manuel Maarek, J. B. Wells
KES
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Commonsense Reasoning in and Over Natural Language
ConceptNet is a very large semantic network of commonsense knowledge suitable for making various kinds of practical inferences over text. ConceptNet captures a wide range of common...
Hugo Liu, Push Singh
ITS
2004
Springer
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Combining Competing Language Understanding Approaches in an Intelligent Tutoring System
When implementing a tutoring system that attempts a deep understanding of students’ natural language explanations, there are three basic approaches to choose between; symbolic, i...
Pamela W. Jordan, Maxim Makatchev, Kurt VanLehn
CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Distributional term representations: an experimental comparison
A number of content management tasks, including term categorization, term clustering, and automated thesaurus generation, view natural language terms (e.g. words, noun phrases) as...
Alberto Lavelli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Roberto Zano...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Focused named entity recognition using machine learning
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Li Zhang, Yue Pan, Tong Zhang
IUI
2004
ACM
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What would they think?: a computational model of attitudes
A key to improving at any task is frequent feedback from people whose opinions we care about: our family, friends, mentors, and the experts. However, such input is not usually ava...
Hugo Liu, Pattie Maes
WEBI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
QTIP: Multi-Agent NLP and Privacy Architecture for Information Retrieval in Usable Web Privacy Software
We present a generic natural language processing (NLP) architecture, acronym QTIL, based on a system of cooperating multiple agents (Q/A, T, I, and L agents) which can be used in ...
Vlado Keselj, Dawn N. Jutla