Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
This paper presents a new learning method for automatic acquisition of translation knowledge from parallel corpora. We apply this learning method to automatic extraction of bilingu...
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...
Manually constructing an inventory of word senses has suffered from problems including high cost, arbitrary assignment of meaning to words, and mismatch to domains. To overcome th...
Cross-language Text Categorization is the task of assigning semantic classes to documents written in a target language (e.g. English) while the system is trained using labeled doc...