We present a study of new word identification (NWI) to improve the performance of a Chinese word segmenter. In this paper the distribution and types of new words are discussed emp...
One of the essential functions of natural language is to talk about spatial relationships between objects. Linguistic constructs can express highly complex, relational structures ...
Parisa KordJamshidi, Martijn van Otterlo, Marie-Fr...
Measuring the similarity between semantic relations that hold among entities is an important and necessary step in various Web related tasks such as relation extraction, informati...
Linguists and geographers are more and more interested in route direction documents because they contain interesting motion descriptions and language patterns. A large number of s...
Xiao Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Sen Xu, Anuj R. Jaisw...
Ontologies are a well-motivated formal representation to model knowledge needed to extract and encode data from text. Yet, their tight integration with Information Extraction (IE)...