While Named Entity extraction is useful in many natural language applications, the coarse categories that most NE extractors work with prove insufficient for complex applications ...
We propose a method "Interactive Paraphrasing" which enables users to interactively paraphrase words in a document by their definitions, making use of syntactic annotati...
This paper describes the characteristic features of dependency structures of Japanese spoken language by investigating a spoken dialogue corpus, and proposes a stochastic approach...
Sharing portions of grammars across languages greatly reduces the costs of multilingual grammar engineering. Related languages share a much wider range of linguistic information t...
We argue that in general, the analysis of lexical cohesion factors in a document can drive a summarizer, as well as enable other content characterization tasks. More narrowly, thi...