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NLUCS
2008
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Limits of Lexical Semantic Relatedness with Ontology-based Conceptual Vectors
Conceptual vectors can be used to represent thematic aspects of text segments, which allow for the computation of semantic relatedness. We study the behavior of conceptual vectors ...
Lim Lian Tze, Didier Schwab
LREC
2008
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Extraction and Evaluation of Keywords from Learning Objects: a Multilingual Approach
We report about a project which brings together Natural Language Processing and eLearning. One of the functionalities developed within this project is the possibility to annotate ...
Lothar Lemnitzer, Paola Monachesi
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of Natural Language Tools for Italian: EVALITA 2007
EVALITA 2007, the first edition of the initiative devoted to the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Italian, provided a shared framework where participants' ...
Bernardo Magnini, Amedeo Cappelli, Fabio Tamburini...
LREC
2008
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Low-Density Language Bootstrapping: the Case of Tajiki Persian
Low-density languages raise difficulties for standard approaches to natural language processing that depend on large online corpora. Using Persian as a case study, we propose a no...
Karine Megerdoomian, Dan Parvaz
LREC
2008
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Estimating the Resource Adaption Cost from a Resource Rich Language to a Similar Resource Poor Language
Developing resources which can be used for Natural Language Processing is an extremely difficult task for any language, but is even more so for less privileged (or less computeriz...
Anil Kumar Singh, Kiran Pala, Harshit Surana
LREC
2008
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Treebank-Based Acquisition of LFG Parsing Resources for French
Motivated by the expense in time and other resources to produce hand-crafted grammars, there has been increased interest in automatically obtained wide-coverage grammars from tree...
Natalie Schluter, Josef van Genabith
LREC
2008
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Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia
This paper describes SW1, the first version of a semantically annotated snapshot of the English Wikipedia. In recent years Wikipedia has become a valuable resource for both the Na...
Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaram...
LREC
2008
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RACAI's Linguistic Web Services
Nowadays, there are hundreds of Natural Language Processing applications and resources for different languages that are developed and/or used, almost exclusively with a few but no...
Dan Tufis, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceausu, Dan Stefane...
LREC
2008
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Targeting Chinese Nominal Compounds in Corpora
For compounding languages, a great part of the topical semantics is conveyed via nominal compounds. Various applications of natural language processing can profit from explicit ac...
Weiruo Qu, Christoph Ringlstetter, Randy Goebel
JURIX
2008
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Concept and Context in Legal Information Retrieval
Abstract. There exist two broad approaches to information retrieval (IR) in the legal domain: those based on manual knowledge engineering (KE) and those based on natural language p...
K. Tamsin Maxwell, Burkhard Schafer