We present the first unsupervised approach to the problem of learning a semantic parser, using Markov logic. Our USP system transforms dependency trees into quasi-logical forms, r...
This paper presents two sentence retrieval methods. We adopt the task definition done in the TREC Novelty Track: sentence retrieval consists in the extraction of the relevant sente...
This paper introduces a method for the semi-automatic generation of grammar test items by applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Based on manually-designed pattern...
In Jijkoun et al. [2004] we showed that off-line answer extraction using syntactic patterns is a successful method for answering English factoid questions. In this paper I will di...
We present a cut and paste based text summarizer, which uses operations derived from an analhuman written abstracts. The summarizer edits extracted sentences, using reduction to r...