Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Latest results of statistical learning theory have provided techniques such us pattern analysis and relational learning, which help in modeling system behavior, e.g. the semantics ...
This paper introduces a method for the semi-automatic generation of grammar test items by applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Based on manually-designed pattern...
Recent work on ontology-based Information Extraction (IE) has tried to make use of knowledge from the target ontology in order to improve semantic annotation results. However, ver...
Binary semantic relation extraction from Wikipedia is particularly useful for various NLP and Web applications. Currently frequent pattern miningbased methods and syntactic analysi...