1. Introduction This chapter reports on the Saarbrücken Lexical Semantics Annotation and
Analysis (SALSA) project, whose main goals are (1) the exhaustive semantic annotation of a …

Nowadays, the communication between human and machines have occurred, at most of the
cases, throught text due to the fact the oral communication to involve two main aspects: the …

Résumé Le besoin des utilisateurs du confort et la demande d'avoir des réponses exactes à
leurs questions sont présents de nos jours, ce qui a donnéun nouvel objectif à l'intelligence …

COMUNICA is a voice QA system for Brazilian Portuguese with search capabilities for
consulting both structured and unstructured datasets. One of the goals of this work is to help …

The task of a Question Answering (QA) system is to automatically answer a question in
natural language, searching for information in a given data source, such as structured …

Having in mind both the importance that semantic information plays nowadays in natural
language processing, as well as the work involved in creating lexical resources from the …

One and the same fact in natural language can be expressed in many different ways by
using different words and/or a different syntax. This phenomenon, commonly called …

As the rapid rise of information stored in document databases continues, there is a real
possibility of using these textual databases in systems that automatically provide answers to …

In this project we plan to improve upon existing Question Answer systems by considering a
probabilistic approach to question answering. The FrameNet lexical resource would be used …

Language is a mark of humanity and conscience, with the conversation (or dialogue) as one
of the most fundamental manners of communication that we learn as children. Therefore one …