Lexical-semantic resources are used extensively for applied semantic inference, yet a clear quantitative picture of their current utility and limitations is largely missing. We pr...
Abstract. Textual Entailment has recently been proposed as an application independent task of recognising whether the meaning of one text may be inferred from another. This is pote...
Situated, spontaneous speech may be ambiguous along acoustic, lexical, grammatical and semantic dimensions. To understand such a seemingly difficult signal, we propose to model th...
Parsing and Tagging are very important tasks in Natural Language Processing. Parsing amounts to searching the correct combination of grammatical rules among those compatible with a...
To account for the semi-freeword order ofFrench, Unification Categorial Grammar is extended in two ways. First, verbal valencies are contained in a set rather than in a list. Seco...