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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
IR
2008
14 years 10 months ago
Focused web crawling in the acquisition of comparable corpora
CLIR resources, such as dictionaries and parallel corpora, are scarce for special domains. Obtaining comparable corpora automatically for such domains could be an answer to this p...
Tuomas Talvensaari, Ari Pirkola, Kalervo Järv...
NLDB
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Lightweight Natural Language Database Interfaces
Most natural language database interfaces suffer from the translation knowledge portability problem, and are vulnerable to ill-formed questions because of their deep analysis. To a...
In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na, Jong-Hyeok Lee, Gijoo Y...
IUI
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Sticky notes for the semantic web
Computer-based annotation is increasing in popularity as a mechanism for revising documents and sharing comments over the Internet. One reason behind this surge is that viewpoints...
David R. Karger, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis ...
EMNLP
2010
14 years 8 months ago
Learning First-Order Horn Clauses from Web Text
Even the entire Web corpus does not explicitly answer all questions, yet inference can uncover many implicit answers. But where do inference rules come from? This paper investigat...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Jesse Davis, Oren Etzioni, D...