We present two methods for learning the structure of personal names from unlabeled data. The first simply uses a few implicit constraints governing this structure to gain a toehol...
Background: The ability to distinguish between genes and proteins is essential for understanding biological text. Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have been proven to be very effici...
Tapio Pahikkala, Filip Ginter, Jorma Boberg, Jouni...
In this report, we describe our question-answering system SAIQA-e (System for Advanced Interactive Question Answering in English) which ran the main task of TREC-10's QA-trac...
In this paper we address the problem of extracting key pieces of information from voicemail messages, such as the identity and phone number of the caller. This task differs from t...
Cross-document coreference occurs when the same person, place, event, or concept is discussed in more than one text source. Computer recognition of this phenomenon is important be...