This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Nicholas Carr’s question “Does IT Matter?”(to the maintenance of competitive advantage) has been applied to many industries but the one that depends on IT almost exclusively...
This paper proposes an algorithm for causality inference based on a set of lexical knowledge bases that contain information about such items as event role, is-a hierarchy, relevan...
Key-Sun Choi, Jae-Ho Kim, Masaru Miyazaki, Jun Got...
As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based...
When a multi-lingual question-answering (QA) system provides an answer that has been incorrectly translated, it is very likely to be regarded as irrelevant. In this paper, we prop...