The Web is a valuable source of language speci c resources but the process of collecting, organizing and utilizing these resources is di cult. We describe CorpusBuilder, an approa...
Abstract. This paper presents a simple unsupervised learning algorithm for recognizing synonyms, based on statistical data acquired by querying a Web search engine. The algorithm, ...
Sets of lexical items sharing a significant aspect of their meaning (concepts) are fundamental in linguistics and NLP. Manual concept compilation is labor intensive, error prone a...
Named entities play an important role in Information Extraction. They represent unitary namable information within text. In this work, we focus on groups of named entities of the s...
With the emergence of the World Wide Web, analyzing and improving Web communication has become essential to adapt the Web content to the visitors’ expectations. Web communicatio...