We present a new method for detecting and disambiguating named entities in open domain text. A disambiguation SVM kernel is trained to exploit the high coverage and rich structure...
We consider the recently proposed XQL language, which is designed to query XML documents by content and structure. We show that an already existing model, namely \Proximal Nodes&q...
This paper presents an architecture for the generation of spoken monologues with contextually appropriate intonation. A twotiered information structure representation is used in t...
We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced...
Workflow management techniques are aiming at supporting business process across organization boundaries. Current techniques are lacking of the formalism tools to model and analyze...