Abstract. The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) allows to identify proper names as well as temporal and numeric expressions, in an open-domain text. NER systems proved to be v...
Natural language understanding systems require a knowledge base provided with conceptual representations reflecting the structure of human beings' cognitive system. Although ...
Many methods are available for computing semantic similarity between individual words, but certain NLP tasks require the comparison of word pairs. This paper presents a kernel-bas...
Despite all the advances on techniques to block spam e-mail messages we still receive them on a frequent basis. This is due mainly to the ability of the spammers to modify the mes...
The generative summarization of textual stories has been one of the goals of computational narratology since attempts at full semantic NLU in the ’70s. Our NLP group has recently...