List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
In some domains, Information Extraction (IE) from texts requires syntactic and semantic parsing. This analysis is computationally expensive and IE is potentially noisy if it applie...
This paper presents a new framework for users to select relevant data from an XML document and store it in an existing relational database, as opposed to previous approaches that s...
This paper is a review of some of the major applications of finite-state transducers in Natural Language Processing ranging from morphological analysis to finite-state parsing. The...
The problem of object recognition may be cast into a spatial grammar framework. This system comprises three novel elements: a spatial organisation of line features, an efficient t...