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NLE
2008
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Natural language processing in CLIME, a multilingual legal advisory system
This paper describes clime, a web-based legal advisory system with a multilingual natural language interface. clime is a `proof-of-concept' system which answers queries relat...
Roger Evans, Paul Piwek, Lynne J. Cahill, Neil Tip...
NLE
2008
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Using automatically labelled examples to classify rhetorical relations: an assessment
Being able to identify which rhetorical relations (e.g., contrast or explanation) hold between spans of text is important for many natural language processing applications. Using ...
Caroline Sporleder, Alex Lascarides
JOLLI
2006
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A 'Natural Logic' inference system using the Lambek calculus
This paper develops an inference system for natural language within the `Natural Logic' paradigm as advocated by Van Benthem [11], S
Anna Zamansky, Nissim Francez, Yoad Winter
JUCS
2008
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A Tool for Reasoning about Qualitative Temporal Information: the Theory of S-languages with a Lisp Implementation
: Reasoning about incomplete qualitative temporal information is an essential topic in many artificial intelligence and natural language processing applications. In the domain of n...
Irène Durand, Sylviane R. Schwer
CORR
2007
Springer
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Ontology and Formal Semantics - Integration Overdue
but other abstract objects as well (e.g., states, processes, properties, activities, attributes, etc.) It will be demonstrated here that in such a framework, a number of challenges...
Walid S. Saba
JAIR
2008
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Gesture Salience as a Hidden Variable for Coreference Resolution and Keyframe Extraction
Gesture is a non-verbal modality that can contribute crucial information to the understanding of natural language. But not all gestures are informative, and non-communicative hand...
Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay, Randall Davis
IAJIT
2006
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A Rule-Based Extensible Stemmer for Information Retrieval with Application to Arabic
: This paper presents a new and extensible method for information retrieval and content analysis in natural languages (NL). The proposed method is stem-based; stems are extracted b...
Haidar Harmanani, Walid Keirouz, Saeed Raheel
FUIN
2006
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On-line Approximate String Matching in Natural Language
We consider approximate pattern matching in natural language text. We use the words of the text as the alphabet, instead of the characters as in traditional string matching approac...
Kimmo Fredriksson
ENGL
2006
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Learning of Object Identification by Robots Controlled by Natural Language
Natural language communication is very important in Human-Robot cooperative work. This paper presents an object sorting robotic system which is controlled by natural language comm...
Chandimal Jayawardena, Keigo Watanabe, Kiyotaka Iz...
CORR
2006
Springer
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Dealing with Metonymic Readings of Named Entities
The aim of this paper is to propose a method for tagging named entities (NE), using natural language processing techniques. Beyond their literal meaning, named entities are freque...
Thierry Poibeau