One of the ultimate goals of natural language processing (NLP) systems is understanding the meaning of what is being transmitted, irrespective of the medium (e.g., written versus ...
In this paper, we discuss tree kernels that can be applied for the classification of XML documents based on their DOM trees. DOM trees are ordered trees, in which every node might...
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
A variety of methods exist for extracting terms and relations between terms from a corpus, each of them having strengths and weaknesses. Rather than just using the joint results, ...
This paper presents various strategies for improving the extraction performance of less prominent relations with the help of the rules learned for similar relations, for which lar...