People with severe speech and motor impairments SSMI can often use augmentative communication devices to help them communicate. While these devices can provide speech synthesis or ...
In the last few years the embedded systems design discipline required new design methodologies and new specification languages to support system engineers in developing heterogen...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
In this paper we report experience in the use of computational grids in the domain of natural language processing, particularly in the area of information extraction, to create qu...
Previous work on the induction of selectional preferences has been mainly carried out for English and has concentrated almost exclusively on verbs and their direct objects. In thi...