One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
Syntactic constraints in Koskenniemi’s Finite-State Intersection Grammar (FSIG) are logically less complex than their formalism (Koskenniemi et al., 1992) would suggest: It turn...
We present a practical co-training method for bootstrapping statistical parsers using a small amount of manually parsed training material and a much larger pool of raw sentences. ...
Mark Steedman, Anoop Sarkar, Miles Osborne, Rebecc...
In this paper, a word alignment approach is presented which is based on a combination of clues. Word alignment clues indicate associations between words and phrases. They can be b...
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), consists in assigning the correct sense (semantics) to a word form (lexeme) by means of the cont...
Davide Buscaldi, Giovanna Guerrini, Marco Mesiti, ...