Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...
NLPsystem developers and corpus lexicographers would both bene t from a tool for nding and organizing the distinctive patterns of use of words in texts. Such a tool would be an ass...
Users’ cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the fe...
The majority of recent Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) research has focused on European languages. CLIR problems that involve East Asian languages such as Chinese intr...
We describe our research on automatically generating rich semantic annotations of text and making it available on the Semantic Web. In particular, we discuss the challenges involv...
Akshay Java, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, T...