In the 1980s, plot units were proposed as a conceptual knowledge structure for representing and summarizing narrative stories. Our research explores whether current NLP technology...
In the field of referring expression generation, while in the static domain both intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations have been considered, extrinsic evaluation in the dynamic doma...
Philipp Spanger, Ryu Iida, Takenobu Tokunaga, Asuk...
This paper proposes a novel method to refine the grammars in parsing by utilizing semantic knowledge from HowNet. Based on the hierarchical state-split approach, which can refine ...
Xiaojun Lin, Yang Fan, Meng Zhang, Xihong Wu, Huis...
In this paper we address the problem of identifying a broad range of term variations in Japanese web search queries, where these variations pose a particularly thorny problem due ...
Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. Ho...