Medical histories provide a rich resource for diagnoses and treatment. Similarly, consumers’ blog postings on health-related topics offer unique data for medical researchers, pr...
Errors are unavoidable in advanced computer vision applications such as optical character recognition, and the noise induced by these errors presents a serious challenge to downstr...
The traditional query languages used in database management systems require precise and unambiguous queries only. Fuzzy querying were introduced to relax this rigidity and allow t...
Many applications dealing with textual information require classification of words into semantic classes (or concepts). However, manually constructing semantic classes is a tediou...
Previous work on discourse parsing has mostly relied on surface syntactic and lexical features; the use of semantics is limited to shallow semantics. The goal of this thesis is to...