The first Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) has been launched at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. This task is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer...
The ability to accurately judge the similarity between natural language sentences is critical to the performance of several applications such as text mining, question answering, an...
Recently, there is a growing interest in working with tree-structured data in different applications and domains such as computational biology and natural language processing. Mor...
Learning for sentence re-writing is a fundamental task in natural language processing and information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new class of kernel functions, referre...
The research field of "extracting knowledge bases from text collections" seems to be mature: its target and its working hypotheses are clear. In this paper we propose a ...