An unified language for the communicative acts between agents is essential for the design of multi-agents architectures. Whatever the type of interaction (linguistic, multimodal, ...
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Automata for unranked trees form a foundation for XML schemas, querying and pattern languages. We study the problem of efficiently minimizing such automata. First, we study unrank...
In this paper, we study the problem of using an annotated corpus in English for the same natural language processing task in another language. While various machine translation sy...
In cross-language information retrieval it is often important to align words that are similar in meaning in two corpora written in different languages. Previous research shows tha...