Identifying whether a multi-word expression (MWE) is compositional or not is important for numerous NLP applications. Sense induction can partition the context of MWEs into semant...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...
Abstract. Extracting information automatically from texts for database representation requires previously well-grouped phrases so that entities can be separated adequately. This pr...
The use of topical features is abundant in Natural Language Processing (NLP), a major example being in dictionary-based Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Yet previous research does...
In this paper we investigate the challenges of applying statistical machine translation to meeting conversations, with a particular view towards analyzing the importance of modeli...