We describe a language-independent, flexible, and accurate method for the detection of abbreviations in text corpora. It is based on the idea that an abbreviation can be viewed as...
I present a novel approach to the determination of recurrent sound correspondences in bilingual wordlists. The idea is to relate correspondences between sounds in wordlists to tra...
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
This paper describes an indexing substrate for typed feature structures (ISTFS), which is an efficient retrieval engine for typed feature structures. Given a set of typed feature ...
We report about the current state of development of a document suite and its applications. This collection of tools for the flexible and robust processing of documents in German i...