In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of th...
Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named `Buffalo' in the U.S. Country names such as `Canada', `Brazil' and `China' ar...
Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0...
This paper proposes a new method for automatic acquisition of Chinese bracketing knowledge from English-Chinese sentencealigned bilingual corpora. Bilingual sentence pairs are fir...
This paper presents techniques for multimedia annotation and their application to video summarization and translation. Our tool for annotation allows users to easily create annota...
While the corpus-based research relies on human annotated corpora, it is often said that a non-negligible amount of errors remain even in frequently used corpora such as Penn Tree...