phrases. The partial parser is motivated by an intuition (Abney, 1991): To acquire noun phrases from running texts is useful for many applications, such as word grouping, terminology indexing, etc. The reported literatures adopt pure probabilistic approach, or pure rule-based noun phrases grammar to tackle this problem. In this paper, we apply a probabilistic chunker to deciding the implicit bo...

Unlike many well established approaches for E-Learning on science fields, there isn’t a commonly accepted approach of E-Learning on humanities fields, especially language and literature. Because the knowledge on language and literature depends too much on texts, advanced text processing has become a bottleneck for E-Learning on these domains. In traditional learning frameworks learners would ea...

The Mathematics Understander (MU) is a computer program which "understands" mathematics texts expressed in the language FEL (Formal Expression Language). MU can learn new definitions, check proofs providing explanations of the steps, and solve simple problems. MU is able, in principle, to learn any branch of pure mathematics from scratch, and has understood texts in Group Theory and Classical A...

In modern Chinese articles or conversations, it is very popular to involve a few English words, especially in emails and Internet literature. Therefore, it becomes an important and challenging topic to analyze Chinese-English mixed texts. The underlying problem is how to tag part-of-speech (POS) for the English words involved. Due to the lack of specially annotated corpus, most of the English w...