In this paper we investigate the main linguistic phenomena that can make texts complex and how they could be simplified. We focus on a corpus analysis of simple account texts avai...
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
Automatically detecting discourse segments is an important preliminary step towards full discourse parsing. Previous research on discourse segmentation have relied on the assumpti...
Stergos D. Afantenos, Pascal Denis, Philippe Mulle...
This paper describes SW1, the first version of a semantically annotated snapshot of the English Wikipedia. In recent years Wikipedia has become a valuable resource for both the Na...
Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaram...
Pervasive computing refers to an emerging trend towards numerous casually accessible devices connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network infrastructure. An important challenge...