The explosion of user-generated content on the Web has led to new opportunities and significant challenges for companies, that are increasingly concerned about monitoring the disc...
In this paper we describe an improved version of ANERsys, an Arabic Named Entity Recognition system for open-domain texts. The first version of ANERsys was totally based on the Ma...
Although the literature contains reports of very high accuracy figures for the recognition of named entities in text, there are still some named entity phenomena that remain probl...
Most state-of-the-art wide-coverage parsers are trained on newspaper text and suffer a loss of accuracy in other domains, making parser adaptation a pressing issue. In this paper ...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...