Natural language analysis systems which combine knowledge-based and corpus-based
methods are now becoming accurate enough to be used in various applications. We …

This paper describes an approach to learning concept definitions which operates on fully
parsed text. A subcorpus of the Dutch version of Wikipedia was searched for sentences …

Factoid question answering is the most widely studied task in question answering. In this
paper, we survey several different techniques to answer extraction for factoid question …

Probabilistic analogues of regular and context-free grammars are well-known in
computational linguistics, and currently the subject of intensive research. To date, however …

This paper discusses how lexical resources based on semantic roles (ie FrameNet,
PropBank, VerbNet) can be used for Question Answering, especially Web Question …

Treebanks are valuable linguistic resources that include the syntactic structure of a
language sentence in addition to part-of-speech tags and morphological features. They are …

Question Answering (QA) is the task of automatically generating answers to natural
language questions from humans, serving as one of the primary research areas in natural …

The construction of a 500-million-word reference corpus of written Dutch has been identified
as one of the priorities in the Dutch/Flemish STEVIN programme. For part of this corpus …

The paper offers an overview of the key issues raised during the 8 years' activity of the
Multilingual Question Answering Track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) …

We present an experiment for finding Semantically similar words on the basis of a parsed
corpus of Dutch text and show that the acquired informa-tion correlates with relations found …