Considerable amounts of geographical data are still collected not in form of GIS data but just
as natural language texts. This paper proposes an approach for the automatic geocoding of …

This PhD thesis is part of the research project PERDIDO, which aims at extracting and
retrieving displacements from textual documents. This work was conducted in collaboration …

The clinical narrative contains a great deal of valuable information that is only
understandable in a temporal context. Events, time expressions, and temporal relations …

We present the system we used for the TempEval competition. This system relies on a deep
syntactic analyzer that has been extended for the treatment of temporal expressions, thus …

Daily, several news agencies publish thousands of articles concerning many events of all
types (political, economic, cultural, etc.). The decision-makers find themselves in front of a …

An important part of natural language text comprehension is the understanding of temporal
information. TimeML is a specification language designed for the markup of temporal …

In this paper, we first present an analysis of procedural question structure. Next, we
investigate the structure of procedural texts and of the relevant rhetorical relations of interest …

Résumé Les travaux présentés dans ce papier se situent dans le cadre de la recherche
d'information géographique. Notre objectif est d'exploiter les fonds documentaires …

Time is an important dimension of any information space and can be very useful in
information retrieval tasks such as document exploration, similarity search, and clustering …

Instructional texts consist of sequences of instructions designed in order to reach an
objective. The author or the generator of instructional texts must follow a number of …