Abstract. Measuring relational similarity between words is important in numerous natural language processing tasks such as solving analogy questions and classifying noun-modifier r...
Automated extraction of ontological knowledge from text corpora is a relevant task in Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we focus on the problem of finding hypernyms for ...
Web semantic access in specific domains calls for specialized search engines with enhanced semantic querying and indexing capacities, which pertain both to information retrieval (...
UML activity models (activities, for short) have become widely accepted for specifying the dynamic behavior of use cases. For an adequate specification of use cases in the context...
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...