Traditional automata accept or reject their input, and are therefore Boolean. In contrast, weighted automata map each word to a value from a semiring over a large domain. The speci...
There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, ...
We present a new formal OO method, called FOX, which is a synergetic combination of the semi-formal Fusion method and the formal specification language Object-Z. To manage complex...
: In this paper we present an experience in the extraction of named entities from Spanish texts using stacking. Named Entity Extraction (NEE) is a subtask of Information Extraction...
Entities -- people, organizations, locations and the like -- have long been a central focus of natural language processing technology development, since entities convey essential ...