Abstract. The purpose of information extraction (IE) is to find desired pieces of information in natural language texts and store them in a form that is suitable for automatic pro...
Acoustic events produced in meeting-room-like environments may carry information useful for perceptually aware interfaces. In this paper, we focus on the problem of combining diffe...
Information retrieval which aims to provide people with easy access to all kinds of information is now becoming more and more emphasized. However, most approaches to information r...
Information extraction (IE) from semi-structured Web documents is a critical issue for information integration systems on the Internet. Previous work in wrapper induction aim to so...
Corpus-based grammar induction generally relies on hand-parsed training data to learn the structure of the language. Unfortunately, the cost of building large annotated corpora is...