The use of figurative language is ubiquitous in natural language texts and it is a serious bottleneck in automatic text understanding. We address the problem of interpretation of ...
In this paper we present the results of comparing a statistical tagger for German based on decision trees and a rule-based Brill-Tagger for German. We used the same training corpu...
Recent research has shown that the provisional count of votes of an ensemble of classifiers can be used to estimate the probability that the final ensemble prediction coincides w...
Incremental parsing with a context free grammar produces partial syntactic structures for an initial fragment on the word-by-word basis. Owing to the syntactic ambiguity, however,...
The ability to correctly classify sentences that describe events is an important task for many natural language applications such as Question Answering (QA) and Summarisation. In ...