Current web search engines essentially conduct document-level ranking and retrieval. However, structured information about realworld objects embedded in static webpages and online...
: This paper is an introdnction to KASSYS, a system that has been designed to extract information from detining statements in natural language. Only hyperonymous detinitions are de...
While Named Entity extraction is useful in many natural language applications, the coarse categories that most NE extractors work with prove insufficient for complex applications ...
Knowing the norms of a domain is crucial, but there exist no repository of norms. We propose a method to extract them from texts: texts generally do not describe a norm, but rathe...
We have been investigating an interactive approach for Open-domain QA (ODQA) and have constructed a spoken interactive ODQA system, SPIQA. The system derives disambiguating querie...
Chiori Hori, Takaaki Hori, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki ...