Even the entire Web corpus does not explicitly answer all questions, yet inference can uncover many implicit answers. But where do inference rules come from? This paper investigat...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Jesse Davis, Oren Etzioni, D...
Abstract. Infants acquire spoken language through hearing and imitating utterances mainly from their parents [1,2,3] but never imitate their parents’ voices as they are. What in ...
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
In the past, NLP has always been based on the explicit or implicit use of linguistic knowledge. In classical computer linguistic applications explicit rule based approaches prevai...
One of the main reasons about the success of the Web is that many “regular users” are able to create Web pages that, using hyperlinks, incrementally extend both the size and th...