Like most natural language disambiguation tasks, word sense disambiguation (WSD) requires world knowledge for accurate predictions. Several proxies for this knowledge have been in...
Abstract. This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is h...
We use the technique of SVM anchoring to demonstrate that lexical features extracted from a training corpus are not necessary to obtain state of the art results on tasks such as N...
Although the literature contains reports of very high accuracy figures for the recognition of named entities in text, there are still some named entity phenomena that remain probl...
In biomedical articles, terms often refer to different protein entities. For example, an arbitrary occurrence of term p53 might denote thousands of proteins across a number of spec...