Database

A layered approach to information retrieval permits the inclusion of multiple search en- gines as well as nmltiple databases, with a natural language layer to convert English queries for use …...

AbstractNPCEditor is a system for building and deploying virtual characters capable of engaging a user in spoken dialog on a limited domain. The dialogue may take any form as long …...

AbstractIn the last two decades, alignment analyses have become an important technique in quantitative historical linguistics and dialectology. Phonetic alignment plays a crucial role in the identification of regular sound …...

AbstractWhich languages convey the most information in a given amount of space? This is a question often asked of linguists, especially by engineers who often have some information theoretic measure …...

AbstractHypernymy relations (those where an hyponym term shares a “isa” relationship with his hypernym) play a key role for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, e.g. ontology learning, automatically building …...

This paper describes the development of webportals with search applications built in order to make the data from the 33 volumes of the Dictionary of the Brabantic dialects (1967-2005) and …...

AbstractIn dialogue analysis, characterising named entities in the domain of interest is relevant in order to understand how people are making use of them for argumentation purposes. The movie recommendation …...

AbstractParsing natural language questions into executable logical forms is a useful and interpretable way to perform question answering on structured data such as knowledge bases (KB) or databases (DB). However, …...