This paper presents a framework for the production of digital talking books. These books target primarily the visually impaired community, but users with other characteristics can...
Finding simple, non-recursive, base noun phrases is an important subtask for many natural language processing applications. While previous empirical methods for base NP identifica...
Recently manuals of industrial products become large and often consist of separated volumes. In reading such individual but related manuals, we must consider the relation among se...
This paper presents a novel type of intelligent agent with a multilingual natural language interface, which retrieves information from within a Web site. This agent, named JaBot a...
This paper describes the implementation of a reliable Get-Put interface written for a distributed memory environment. The asynchronous semantics of the Put as well as the split tr...