ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
1998
We present a method for constructing, maintaining and consulting a database of proper nouns. We describe noun phrases composed of a proper noun and/or a description of a human occ...
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
1998
In machine translation and man-machine dialogue, it is important to clarify referents of noun phrases. We present a method for determining the referents of noun phrases in Japanes...
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
In TREC 2004, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participates in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval t...
TREC
2001
2001
SiteQ: Engineering High Performance QA System Using Lexico-Semantic Pattern Matching and Shallow NLP
13 years 5 months ago
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
Most approaches to event extraction focus on mentions anchored in verbs. However, many mentions of events surface as noun phrases. Detecting them can increase the recall of event ...
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Traditional noun phrase coreference resolution systems represent features only of pairs of noun phrases. In this paper, we propose a machine learning method that enables features ...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The paper presents two experiments of unsupervised classification of Italian noun phrases. The goal of the experiments is to identify the most prominent contextual properties that...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
This paper addresses the automatic classification of semantic relations in noun phrases based on cross-linguistic evidence from a set of five Romance languages. A set of novel s...
NLPRS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
We present an unsupervised method for canonicalizing joshi (postpositions) in Japanese. Some postpositions in Japanese do not specify semantic roles explicitly as case markers do,...
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
In this paper we present a noun phrase coreference resolution system which aims to enhance the identification of the coreference realized by string matching. For this purpose, we ...