This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
In this article we compare the performance of various machine learning algorithms on the task of constructing word-sense disambiguation rules from data. The distinguishing characte...
Georgios Paliouras, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Ion Andr...
In this paper we describe an Information Retrieval problem called collection fusion. The collection fusion problem is to maximize the number of relevant natural language documents...
Geoffrey G. Towell, Ellen M. Voorhees, Narendra Ku...
Children do not learn the meanings of words from parsing and understanding gigabytes of text; instead meanings are learned from competent speakers who relate language to what'...
In this paper we describe the result of manually annotating I-CAB, the Italian Content Annotation Bank, by expressions of private state (EPSs), i.e., expressions that denote the p...
Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Ilaria Urciuoli