We have successfully adapted and extended the automatic Multilingual, Interoperable Named Entity Lexicon approach to Arabic, using Arabic WordNet (AWN) and Arabic Wikipedia (AWK)....
Mohammed Attia, Antonio Toral, Lamia Tounsi, Monic...
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
This is a high level computer vision paper, which employs concepts from Natural Language Understanding in solving the video retrieval problem. Our main contribution is the utiliza...
This paper presents the method for retrieving and summarizing changes in topics from online resources. Users often want to know what are the major changes in their areas of intere...
: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...