Acquisition of semantic information is necessary for proper understanding of natural language text. Such information is often domain-speclfic in nature and must be acquized from t...
This paper discusses the use of computational linguistic technology to extract definitions from a large corpus of German court decisions. We present a corpus-based survey of defin...
One of the central issues for information extraction (IE) systems is the cost of customization from one scenario to another. Research on the automated acquisition of patterns is i...
To tackle the vocabulary problem in conversational systems, previous work has applied unsupervised learning approaches on co-occurring speech and eye gaze during interaction to au...
One problem many Web users encounter is to keep track of changes of distant Web sources. Push services, informing clients about data changes, are frequently not provided by Web ser...