This report is about our participation in the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE2008). Our system casts the AVE task into a Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) problem and uses an ex...
Recently, there is a growing interest in working with tree-structured data in different applications and domains such as computational biology and natural language processing. Mor...
The first Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) has been launched at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. This task is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer...
The ability to accurately judge the similarity between natural language sentences is critical to the performance of several applications such as text mining, question answering, an...
Determining whether two terms in text have an ancestor relation (e.g. Toyota and car) or a sibling relation (e.g. Toyota and Honda) is an essential component of textual inference ...