In this paper we compare two methods for the automatic identification of geographical articles in encyclopedic resources such as Wikipedia. The methods are a WordNet-based method ...
Abstract. In this work, we apply and evaluate a machine-learningbased system to Portuguese clause identification. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first machine-learning-b...
Abstract. The need of the current Natural Language Processing applications to identify text segments that express the same meaning in different ways, evolved into the identificatio...
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
While speaking spontaneously, speakers often make errors such as self-correction or false starts which interfere with the successful application of natural language processing tec...