Abstract. With the current method of query formation, a Question Answering system retrieves a set of documents that are similar to a question, while what is mostly required is a se...
We have previously shown how the discovery of classes from objects can be automated, and how the resulting class organization can be e ciently optimized in the case where the opti...
In this paper, we present a learning framework for the semantic annotation of text documents that can be used as textual cases in case-based reasoning applications. The annotation...
We develop a new approach to learning phrase translations from parallel corpora, and show that it performs with very high coverage and accuracy in choosing French translations of ...
We introduce an approach to the automatic acquisition of new concepts fi'om natural language texts which is tightly integrated with the underlying text understanding process....