This paper describes a computational approach to resolving the true referent of a named mention of a person in the body of an email. A generative model of mention generation is us...
A given entity, representing a person, a location or an organization, may be mentioned in text in multiple, ambiguous ways. Understanding natural language requires identifying whe...
Web 2.0 is the popular name of a new generation of Web applications, sites and companies that emphasis openness, community and interaction. Examples include technologies such as B...
This paper deals with the task of large vocabulary proper name recognition. In order to accomodate a wide diversity of possible name pronunciations (due to non-native name origins...
Formulating and executing queries over distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous resources is an important research area. The advent of the Internet and the Web and their inherent...