Abstract. We compare Kripke models and hypercube systems, a simpli ed notion of Interpreted Systems, as semantic structures for reasoning about knowledge. Our method is to de ne a ...
Obtaining large volumes of inference knowledge, such as entailment rules, has become a major factor in achieving robust semantic processing. While there has been substantial resea...
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...
We present a domain-independent unsupervised topic segmentation approach based on hybrid document indexing. Lexical chains have been successfully employed to evaluate lexical cohe...
A new architecture for identifying and interpreting temporal expressions is introduced, in which the large set of complex hand-crafted rules standard in systems for this task is r...