Contextual vocabulary acquisition (CVA) is the active, deliberate acquisition of a meaning for an unknown word in a text by reasoning from textual clues, prior knowledge, and hypo...
Taxonomic case-based reasoning is a conversational casebased reasoning methodology that employs feature subsumption taxonomies for incremental case retrieval. Although this approa...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
Noun compound interpretation is the task of determining the semantic relations among the constituents of a noun compound. For example, "concrete floor" means a floor mad...
This paper overviews and analyses the on-going research attempts to apply language technologies to automatic ontology acquisition. At first glance there are many successful approac...