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We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...
In linguistics, it is quite common to use tree diagrams for immediate constituent analysis of sentences. Traditionally, these trees are binary and twodimensional. However, phenomen...
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) facilitates the use of one language to access documents in other languages. Crosslanguage information extraction (CLIE) extracts releva...
Temporal information is useful in many NLP applications, such as information extraction, question answering and summarization. In this paper, we present a temporal parser for extra...