: Up to now, the results of applying sophisticated NL techniques to IR have been mostly disappointing. Our research aims at investigating in detail the role of syntactic analysis i...
Requirements analysis is an important phase in a software project. Automatic evaluation of Natural Language (NL) requirements documents has been proposed as a means to improve the...
Antonio Bucchiarone, Stefania Gnesi, Giuseppe Lami...
We propose a method for providing stochastic confidence estimates for rule-based and black-box natural language (NL) processing systems. Our method does not require labeled trainin...
Christian Monson, Kristy Hollingshead, Brian Roark
Previous information extraction (IE) systems are typically organized as a pipeline architecture of separated stages which make independent local decisions. When the data grows bey...
Qi Li, Sam Anzaroot, Wen-Pin Lin, Xiang Li, Heng J...
Abstract. This paper describes a new technique for the direct translation of character n-grams for use in Cross-Language Information Retrieval systems. This solution avoids the nee...