Semantic Class Identification

This paper describes initial work on Deep Read, an automated reading comprehension system that accepts arbitrary text input (a story) and answers questions about it. We have acquired a corpus …...

Complex tasks like question answering need to be able to identify events in text and the relations among those events. We show that this event identification task and a related …...

We present an ensemble-based framework for semantic lexicon induction that incorpo- rates three diverse approaches for semantic class identification. Our architecture brings together previous bootstrapping methods for pattern-based semantic lexicon …...