The notion of partial and evolutionary specification has gained attention both in research and industry in the last years. While many people regard this just as a process issue, w...
Converting a natural language query sentence into a formal database query is a major challenge. We have constructed NaLIX, a natural language interface for querying XML data. Throu...
Even in a massive corpus such as the Web, a substantial fraction of extractions appear infrequently. This paper shows how to assess the correctness of sparse extractions by utiliz...
In the context of Natural Language Processing, annotation is about recovering implicit information that is useful for natural language applications. In this paper we describe a &q...
This work evaluates a system that uses interpolated predictions of reading difficulty that are based on both vocabulary and grammatical features. The combined approach is compared...
Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Cal...