We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...
Recently several researchers have investigated techniques for using data to learn Bayesian networks containing compact representations for the conditional probability distribution...
David Maxwell Chickering, David Heckerman, Christo...
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...
In order to extractrigidexpressions with a high frequency of use, new algorithm that can efficientlyextract both uninterruptedand interruptedcollocationsfrom very large corpora ha...
The study of belief change has been an active area in philosophy and AI. In recent years, two special cases of belief change, belief revision and belief update, have been studied ...