The World Wide Web can be viewed as a gigantic distributed database including millions of interconnected hosts some of which publish information via web servers or peer-to-peer sys...
Extracting semantic relationships between entities from text documents is challenging in information extraction and important for deep information processing and management. This ...
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Using abundant Web resources to mine Chinese term translations can be applied in many fields such as reading/writing assistant, machine translation and crosslanguage information r...
In this paper, we address a unique problem in Chinese language processing and report on our study on extending a Chinese thesaurus with region-specific words, mostly from the fina...