Semantic entailment is the problem of determining if the meaning of a given sentence entails that of another. This is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding that ...
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyaka...
Since sentences are the basic propositional units of text, knowing their themes should help various tasks requiring the knowledge about the semantic content of text. In this paper,...
Word sense discrimination is an unsupervised clustering problem, which seeks to discover which instances of a word/s are used in the same meaning. This is done strictly based on i...
Relying on the idea that back-of-the-book indexes are traditional devices for navigation through large documents, we have developed a method to build a hypertextual network that h...
This article describes a finite-state cascade for the extraction of person names in texts in French. We extract these proper names in order to categorize and to cluster texts with...