Parallel bilingual or multilingual corpora are often handled as collections of segments without any specific document organization. We describe SECTra_w, a web-oriented system which has been used for online MT evaluations, and has recently been extended to handle multimodal documents such as French-Chinese/Vietnamese/Hindi/Tamil interpreted bilingual spontaneous dialogues, mainly spoken but als...

In this paper, we present and analyze the results of the application of a text summarization system – GistSumm – to the task of monolingual question answering at CLEF 2006 for Portuguese texts. Using the system ability to produce topic-oriented summaries, we aimed at assessing its accuracy in finding answers to the posted questions, which were used as the topics for producing the corresponding ...

The terms coreference and anaphora tend to be used inconsistently and interchangeably in much empirically-oriented work in NLP, and this threatens to lead to incoherent analyses of texts and arbitrary loss of information. This paper discusses the role of coreference annotation in Information Extraction, focussing on the coreference scheme defined for the MUC-7 evaluation exercise. We point out ...

Argumentation (e.g. (Amgoud et al 2001, Moeschler 1985)) and, in particular, persuasive argumentation is a process frequently encountered in several types of exts where the challenge is to convince the reader to adhere to a certain point of view. Arguments come with forms of emphasis which give them more strength than normally expected, or, conversely, they may come with forms of irony or of de...

Reading newspapers may be seen as an "everyday cognitive task". Therefore it is not astonishing that some work in Artificial Intelligence aims at the simulation of aspects of the understanding processes of newspaper readers [Eisenstadt 1977; Rosenberg 1977]. There have even been pioneering system~: the Script ~0plier Mechanism [Cullingford 1978] demonstrated careful reading of "event~--oriented...

Arrau is a new corpus annotated for anaphoric relations, with information about agreement and explicit representation of multiple antecedents for ambiguous anaphoric expressions and discourse antecedents for expressions which refer to abstract entities such as events, actions and plans. The corpus contains texts from different genres: task-oriented dialogues from the Trains-91 and Trains-93 cor...

A task-oriented evaluation of text understanding systems was prepared and conducted. Nine different NLP systems participated in the evaluation. NOSC collected 150 texts to be used as development (i.e. training) and test data and prepared explanatory documentation on them. The performance task--a simulated database update task--and the expected outputs for each text were defined. A scoring syste...

The terms coreference and anaphora tend to be used inconsistently and interchangeably in much empirically-oriented work in NLP, and this threatens to lead to incoherent analyses of texts and arbitrary loss of information. This paper discusses the role of coreference annotation in Information Extraction, focussing on the coreference scheme defined for the MUC-7 evaluation exercise. We point out ...

We are currently constructing a special language corpus, with particular emphasis on such lexically oriented studies and applications as terminology and information retrieval. In the paper, we focus on the problem with de ning the lexical units in running texts, which is essential for the construction of a lexically motivated corpus. Although we focus on Japanese in this paper, the problem disc...

The object of the study is idiodiscourse outstanding philologist M.M. Bakhtin, subject integral and differential features Bakhtin as a realization professional linguistic personality philologist. purpose based on material within framework comparative rhetorical analysis, to reveal invariant core individual set goal predetermines number specific tasks: 1. consider history issue: summarize studie...