In this paper we discuss how metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases can be automatically generated. The work presented is a further step in the develo...
Maria Francesca Costabile, Donato Malerba, Matthia...
We have developed a method for answering single answer questions automatically using a collection of documents or the Internet as a source of data for the production of the answer...
James R. Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salga...
This paper describes a method for the development of dialogue managers for natural language interfaces. A dialogue manager is presented designed on the basis of both a theoretical...
We have implemented an incremental lexical acquisition mechanism that learns the meanings of previously unknown words from the context in which they appear, as a part of the proce...
Collocational analysis is the basis of many studies on lexical acquisition. Collocations are extracted from corpora using more or less shallow processing techniques, that span from...
Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Paola Velar...