Abstract. In order to extend the application domain of natural language interfaces to more realistic tasks without the decrease of user’s performance, it is desirable for users t...
Verb classes which integrate a wide range of linguistic properties (Levin, 1993) have proved useful for natural language processing (NLP) applications. However, the real-world use...
This paper introduces an novel framework for speech understanding using extended context-free grammars (ECFGs) by combining statistical methods and rule based knowledge. By only us...
Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-g...
In this poster we present an approach to query answering over knowledge sources that makes use of different ontology management components within an application scenario of the BT...