Kalina Bontcheva, Christopher Brewster, Fabio Ciravegna, Hamish Cunningham, Louise Guthrie, Robert Gaizauskas, ...
AKT is a major research project applying a variety of technologies to knowledge management. Knowledge is a dynamic, ubiquitous resource, which is to be found equally in an expert's head, under...
Service-Finder: Web Scale Semantic Discovery (2009)
Kalina Bontcheva, Emanuele Della Valle, Michael Erdmann, Holger Lausen, Nathalie Steinmetz, Andrea Turati
Abstract. The Web is moving from a collection of static documents to a set of Web Services. Search engines provide fast and easy access to existing Web pages, however up till now there is no...
ABSTRACT Large-scale, Parallel Automatic Patent Annotation (2009)
Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Yaoyong Li, Ian Roberts, ...
When researching new product ideas or filing new patents, inventors need to retrieve all relevant pre-existing know-how and/or to exploit and enforce patents in their technological domain. However,...
A Natural Language Query Interface to Structured Information (2009)
Valentin Tablan, Danica Damljanovic, Kalina Bontcheva
Abstract. Accessing structured data such as that encoded in ontologies and knowledge bases can be done using either syntactically complex formal query languages like SPARQL or complicated form...
Amardeilh, Florence, Damljanovic, Danica, Bontcheva, Kalina
The aim of semantic annotation is to bridge the large gap between structured knowledge and the large volumes of unstructured text data that companies and people need to deal with daily. Alas, the...
Damljanovic, Danica, Amardeilh, Florence, Bontcheva, Kalina
We present the Content Augmentation Manager Framework for creating various adapted workflows for ontology population and semantic annotation based on Semantic Web recommendations and UIMA precepts....
Amardeilh, Florence, Damljanovic, Danica, Bontcheva, Kalina
The aim of semantic annotation is to bridge the large gap between structured knowledge and the large volumes of unstructured text data that companies and people need to deal with daily. Alas, the...
Damljanovic, Danica, Amardeilh, Florence, Bontcheva, Kalina
We present the Content Augmentation Manager Framework for creating various adapted workflows for ontology population and semantic annotation based on Semantic Web recommendations and UIMA precepts....
214 Automatic Report Generation from Ontologies: the MIAKT approach (2008)
Kalina Bontcheva, Yorick Wilks
Abstract. This paper presented an approach for automatic generation of reports from domain ontologies encoded in Semantic Web standards like OWL. The paper identifies the challenges that need to be...
Ontology-based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence (2008)
Horacio Saggion, Adam Funk, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva
Abstract. Business Intelligence (BI) requires the acquisition and aggregation of key pieces of knowledge from multiple sources in order to provide valuable information to customers or feed...
Cost Sensitive Evaluation Measures for F-term Patent Classification (2008)
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Some classification problems, such as the NTCIR-06 F-term patent classification task, have general or specific relations between the target class labels. Consequently, in such cases, it is desirable...
CLOnE: Controlled Language for Ontology Editing (2008)
Adam Funk, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Brian Davis, Siegfried H
Abstract. This paper presents a controlled language for ontology editing and a software implementation, based partly on standard NLP tools, for processing that language and manipulating an ontology....
GATE- a General Architecture for Text Engineering (2008)
Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
GATE 1 is an architecture, development environment, and framework for building systems that process human language (Cunningham et al., 2002; Maynard et al., 2002b). It has been in development at the...
Generating Tailored Textual Summaries from (2008)
Abstract. This paper presents the ONTOSUM system which uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques to produce textual summaries from Semantic Web ontologies. The main contribution of this work...
CLOnE: Controlled Language for Ontology Editing (2008)
Adam Funk, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Siegfried H
Abstract. This paper presents a controlled language for ontology editing and a software implementation, based partly on standard NLP tools, for processing that language and manipulating an ontology....
Cost Sensitive Evaluation Measures for F-term Patent Classification (2008)
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Some classification problems, such as the NTCIR-06 F-term patent classification task, have general or specific relations between the target class labels. Consequently, in such cases, it is desirable...
Ontological Integration of Information Extracted from Multiple Sources (2008)
Adam Funk, Diana Maynard, Horacio Saggion, Kalina Bontcheva
We describe here an ontologically based approach to multi-source, multilingual information extraction. Structured, semistructured and unstructured documents of various types are annotated using a...
Ontology-based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence (2008)
Horacio Saggion, Adam Funk, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva
Abstract. Business Intelligence (BI) requires the acquisition and aggregation of key pieces of knowledge from multiple sources in order to provide valuable information to customers or feed...
Indexing and Querying Linguistic Metadata and Document Content (2008)
Niraj Aswani, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
The need for efficient corpus indexing and querying arises frequently both in machine learning-based and human-engineered natural language processing systems. This paper presents the ANNIC system,...
Experiments of Opinion Analysis On Two Corpora MPQA and NTCIR-6 (2008)
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
This paper describes the algorithms and linguistic features used in our participating system for the opinion analysis pilot task at NTCIR-6. It presents and discusses the results of our system on the...
Publishers/Association for Computational Linguistics. (2008)
José Abracos, Gabriel Pereira, Lopes Statistical, Inderjeet Mani, Mark Maybury, Kathy Mckeown, ...
Exploiting cross-document relations for multi-document evolving summarization.
K.: A text-based query interface to owl ontologies (2008)
Danica Damljanovic, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva
Accessing structured data in the form of ontologies requires training and learning formal query languages (e.g., SeRQL or SPARQL) which poses significant difficulties for non-expert users. One of the...
Adapting Support Vector Machines for F-term-based Classification of Patents (2008)
Support Vector Machines (SVM) have obtained state-of-the-art results on many applications including document classification. However, previous works on applying SVMs to the F-term patent...
Using an Independent, Belief-Based Agent Modelling Component for Language Generation (2007)
Feasibility Study, Kalina Bontcheva
. This paper generalises previous work in order to establish desiderata for an independent user modelling component to be used for language generation. Within this context, we discuss the suitability...
. This paper generalises previous work in order to establish desiderata for an independent user modelling component to be used for language generation. Within this context, we discuss the suitability...
Ex Sharp (chair, Nicoletta Calzolari, Antonietta Alonge, Nuria Bel, Kalina Bontcheva, Pierrette Bouillon, ...
I Linguistic aspects of lexical semantics 7
Experiments with Geographic Knowledge for Information Extraction (2007)
Dimitar Manov, Atanas Kiryakov, Borislav Popov, Ontotext Lab, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, ...
Here we present work on using spatial knowledge in conjunction with information extraction (IE). Considerable volume of location data was imported in a knowledge base (KB) with entities of general...
MUSE: a MUlti-Source Entity recognition system (2007)
Diana Maynard, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Yorick Wilks
Abstract. This paper describes a robust and easily adaptable system for named entity recognition from a variety of different text types. Most information extraction systems need to be customised...
Cristian Ursu, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Oana Hamza, Hamish Cunningham
2.1 How to add supprt for a new document format........ 4 2.2 Detecting the right reader.................... 6
British Telecommunications plc. (2007)
Adam Funk, Brian Davis, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Ipswich Ip Re, ...
Deliverable D2.2.2 (WP2.2) This deliverable outlines an approach to automatic generation of metadata from natural language. The emphasis is on easy to use applications and controlled language...
Date Distribution Reviewed By: Web links: (2007)
Kalina Bontcheva, Danica Damljanovic, Niraj Aswani, Florence Amardeilh (mondeca, Atos Origin, Sociedad Anonima Espanola
Deliverable D3.1 (WP3) This deliverable is concerned with developing algorithms and tools for semantic annotation of legacy software artefacts, with respect to a given domain ontology. In the case of...
Kalina Bontcheva, Ian Roberts, Milan Agatonovic, Atos Origin, Sociedad Anonima Espanola
analysis and application of TAO methodology in data intensive applications
SVM Based Learning System for F-term Patent Classification (2007)
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
This paper describes our SVM-based system and the techniques we used to adapt the approach for the specifics of the F-term patent classification subtask at NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Task. Our system...
Mining Information for Instance Unification (2006)
Aswani, Niraj, Bontcheva, Kalina, Cunningham, Hamish
Instance unification determines whether two instances in an ontology refer to the same object in the real world. More specifically, this paper addresses the instance unification problem for person...
M.: Learning Ontologies from Software Artifacts: Exploring and Combining Multiple Sources (2006)
Abstract. While early efforts on applying Semantic Web technologies to solve software engineering related problems show promising results, the very basic process of augmenting software artifacts with...
Mining information for instance unification (2006)
Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Abstract. Instance unification determines whether two instances in an ontology refer to the same object in the real world. More specifically, this paper addresses the instance unification problem for...
M.: Learning Ontologies from Software Artifacts: Exploring and Combining Multiple Sources (2006)
Abstract. While early efforts on applying Semantic Web technologies to solve software engineering related problems show promising results, the very basic process of augmenting software artifacts with...
Automatic Extraction of Hierarchical Relations from Text (2006)
Ting Wang, Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Ji Wang
Abstract. Automatic extraction of semantic relationships between entity instances in an ontology is useful for attaching richer semantic metadata to documents. In this paper we propose an SVM based...
K.: User-friendly ontology authoring using a controlled language (2006)
Valentin Tablan, Tamara Polajnar, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva
In recent years, following the rapid development in the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management research, ontologies have become more in demand in Natural Language Processing. An increasing number of...
Mining information for instance unification (2006)
Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Abstract. Instance unification determines whether two instances in an ontology refer to the same object in the real world. More specifically, this paper addresses the instance unification problem for...
Next Generation Knowledge Access (2005)
Davies, John, Duke, Alistair, Kings, Nick, Mladenić, Dunja, Bontcheva, Kalina, Grcar, Miha, ...
Purpose The paper shows how access to knowledge can be enhanced by using a set of innovative approaches and technologies based upon the Semantic Web. Approach Emerging trends in knowledge access are...
Indexing and Querying Linguistic Metadata and Document Content (2005)
Aswani, Niraj, Tablan, Valentin, Bontcheva, Kalina, Cunningham, Hamish
The need for efficient corpus indexing and querying arises frequently both in machine learning-based and human-engineered natural language processing systems. This paper presents the ANNIC system,...
SVM Based Learning System For Information Extraction (2005)
Li, Yaoyong, Bontcheva, Kalina, Cunningham, Hamish
We present an SVM-based learning system for information extraction (IE). One distinctive feature of our system is the use of a variant of the SVM, the SVM with uneven margins, which is particularly...
SVM Based Learning System For Information Extraction (2005)
Li, Yaoyong, Bontcheva, Kalina, Cunningham, Hamish
We present an SVM-based learning system for information extraction (IE). One distinctive feature of our system is the use of a variant of the SVM, the SVM with uneven margins, which is particularly...
Semantic Indexing using Minimum Redundancy Cut in Ontologies (2005)
Seydoux, Florian, Chappelier, Jean-Cédric, Angelova, Galia, Bontcheva, Kalina, Mitkov, Ruslan, Nicolov, Nikolai
Using Uneven Margins SVM and Perceptron for Information Extraction (2005)
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
The classification problem derived from information extraction (IE) has an imbalanced training set. This is particularly true when learning from smaller datasets which often have a few positive...
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), (2005)
Pages Ann Arbor, Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
The classification problem derived from information extraction (IE) has an imbalanced training set. This is particularly true when learning from smaller datasets which often have a few positive...
SVM Based Learning System For Information Extraction (2005)
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Abstract. This paper presents an SVM-based learning system for information extraction (IE). One distinctive feature of our system is the use of a variant of the SVM, the SVM with uneven margins,...
Perceptron Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation (2005)
Yaoyong Li, Chuanjiang Miao, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
We explored a simple, fast and effective learning algorithm, the uneven margins Perceptron, for Chinese word segmentation. We adopted the character-based classification framework and transformed the...
British Telecommunications plc. (2005)
Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Niraj Aswani, Wim Peters, Hamish Cunningham, Ipswich Ip Re, ...
Deliverable D2.5.2 (WP2.5) The first part of this deliverable presents the Pascal Challenge on evaluating machine learning methods for Information Extraction, the systems that we entered into the...
An SVM based learning algorithm for Information Extraction (2004)
Li, Yaoyong, Bontcheva, Kalina, Cunningham, Hamish
We present an SVM-based learning algorithm for information extraction. We conducted experiments for different settings of the algorithms and different combinations of NLP features. We also show that...
A framework for named entity recognition in the open domain (2004)
Nicolov, Nicolas, Bontcheva, Kalina, Angelova, Galia, Mitkov, Ruslan
Paper presented at the 2003 International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”
This paper describes reusable, open-source tools for creation, maintenance, storage, and access of Language Resources (LR) needed for generating natural language texts from ontologies. One advantage...
Automatic Language-Independent Induction of Gazetteer Lists (2004)
Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Adaptation of existing Information Extraction (IE) systems to new languages and domains is the focus of much current research, but progress is often hindered by the lack of available resources to...
2.3 Using Gaze............................ 5 (2004)
Valentin Tablan, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Large scale experiments for semantic labeling of noun phrases in raw text (2004)
Louise Guthrie, Roberto Basili, Fabio Zanzotto, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, David Guthrie, ...
Large scale experiments for semantic labeling of noun phrases in raw text (2004)
Louise Guthrie, Roberto Basili, Fabio Zanzotto, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, David Guthrie, ...
Automatic Report Generation from Ontologies: The MIAKT Approach (2004)
Kalina Bontcheva, Yorick Wilks
This paper presented an approach for automatic generation of reports from domain ontologies encoded in Semantic Web standards like OWL. The paper identifies the challenges that need to be addressed...
The Cricket Indoor Location System http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/cricket (2003)
Horacio Saggion, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
We present a robust summarisation system developed within the GATE architecture that makes use of robust components for semantic tagging and coreference resolution provided by GATE. Our system...
The semantic web: A new opportunity and challenge for human language technology (2003)
Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
Abstract. This position paper motivates the need for Semantic Web enabled Human Language Technology (HLT) tools and discusses the major outstanding challenges in this area. It introduces the idea of...
Semantic Web Enabled, Open Source Language Technology (2003)
Kalina Bontcheva, Borislav Popov
This paper motivates the need for Semantic Web enabled language technology tools and introduces a set of freely available, customisable components which integrate data about language with Semantic...
Towards a semantic extraction of Named Entities (2003)
Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
In this paper, we discuss the new challenges posed by the progression from information extraction to content extraction, as demonstrated by the ACE program. We explore whether traditional IE...
Kalina Bontcheva, Vania Dimitrova
This paper discussed the use of Conceptual Graphs (CGs) for implementing tasks employed in web-based educational systems that aid terminology learning. Specifically, we focus on two critical issues...
The Cricket Indoor Location System http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/cricket (2003)
Horacio Saggion, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
We present a robust summarisation system developed within the GATE architecture that makes use of robust components for semantic tagging and coreference resolution provided by GATE. Our system...
GATE: A Unicode-based infrastructure supporting multilingual information extraction (2003)
Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham
NLP infrastructures with comprehensive multilingual support can substantially decrease the overhead of developing Information Extraction (IE) systems in new languages by offering support for...
Louise Guthrie, Roberto Basili, Fabio Zanzotto, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Marco Cammisa, ...
1.1 Five Characteristics of the Work......................... 3
The Cricket Indoor Location System http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/cricket (2003)
Horacio Saggion, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham
We present a robust summarisation system developed within the GATE architecture that makes use of robust components for semantic tagging and coreference resolution provided by GATE. Our system...
OLLIE: On-Line Learning for Information Extraction (2003)
Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham
This paper reports work aimed at developing an open, distributed learning environment, OLLIE, where researchers can experiment with different Machine Learning (ML) methods for Information Extraction....
Software Architectures for Language Engineering: a Critical Review (2003)
Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva
This paper concerns infrastructural work in the fields of Language Engineering, Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. We begin by defining the area...
developing language processing components with GATE (2002)
Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan, Cristian Ursu, Marin Dimitrov, ...
Work on GATE has been partly supported by EPSRC grants GR/K25267 (Large-Scale
Adapting a robust multi-genre ne system for automatic content extraction (2002)
Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva, Ontotext Lab
marinsirma. bg Abstract. Many current IE systems tend to be designed with particular applications and domains in mind. With the increasing need for robust NLP tools which can handle a variety of IE...
Architectural elements of language engineering robustness (2002)
Diana Maynard, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, Cristian Ursu, Horacio Saggion, Kalina Bontcheva, ...
We discuss robustness in LE systems from the perspective of engineering, and the predictability of both outputs and construction process that this entails. We present an architectural system that...
Extracting Information for Automatic Indexing of Multimedia Material (2002)
Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Oana Hamza, Christian Ursu, ...
This paper discusses our work on information extraction (IE) from multi-lingual, multi-media, multi-genre Language Resources, in a domain where there are many different event types. This work is...
A Light-weight Approach to Coreference Resolution for Named Entities in Text (2002)
Marin Dimitrov, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Ontotext Lab, Sirma Ai
This paper presents a lightweight approach to pronoun resolution in the case when the antecedent is named entity. It falls under the category of the so-called "knowledge poor "...
Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Oana Hamza
In this paper we describe how information extraction technology has been used to build a summarisation system in the domain of occupational health and safety. The core of the application is based on...
A unicode-based environment for creation and use of language resources (2002)
Valentin Tablan, Cristian Ursu, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Oana Hamza, ...
GATE is a Unicode-aware architecture, development environment and framework for building systems that process human language. It is often thought that the character sets problem has been solved by...
Using GATE as an environment for teaching NLP (2002)
Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Valentin Tablan, Diana Maynard, Oana Hamza
In this paper we argue that the GATE architecture and visual development environment can be used as an effective tool for teaching language engineering and computational linguistics. Since GATE comes...
Gate: An architecture for development of robust hlt applications (2002)
Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan
In this paper we present GATE, a framework and graphical development environment which enables users to de-velop and deploy language engineering components and resources in a robust fashion. The GATE...
Adapting a robust multi-genre ne system for automatic content extraction (2002)
Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva, Ontotext Lab
marinsirma. bg Abstract. Many current information extraction systems tend to be designed with particular applications and domains in mind. With the increasing need for robust language engineering...
Gate: An architecture for development of robust hlt applications (2002)
Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan
In this paper we present GATE, a framework and graphical development environment which enables users to de-velop and deploy language engineering components and resources in a robust fashion. The GATE...
Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham, Horacio Saggion
Abstract. In this paper we show how we used robust human language technology, such as our domain-independent and customisable named entity recogniser, for automatic content annotation and indexing in...
The impact of empirical studies on the design of an adaptive hypertext generation system (2002)
Abstract. This paper presents two empirical usability studies based on techniques from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and software engineering, which were used to elicitate requirements for the...
Using GATE as an environment for teaching NLP (2002)
Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Valentin Tablan, Diana Maynard, Oana Hamza
In this paper we argue that the GATE architecture and visual development environment can be used as an effective tool for teaching language engineering and computational linguistics. Since GATE comes...
Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Oana Hamza
Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? In this paper we show how tools provided by a text engineering framework (GATE) have been used to build an IE-based summarisation system in the...
Gate: An architecture for development of robust hlt applications (2002)
Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan
In this paper we present GATE, a framework and graphical development environment which enables users to develop and deploy language engineering components and resources in a robust fashion. The GATE...
Abstract. This paper presents the evaluation of a dynamic hypertext system that generates personalised explanations. The main focus is on some of the results, which showed that future experiments...
Using GATE as an environment for teaching NLP (2002)
Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Valentin Tablan, Diana Maynard, Oana Hamza
In this paper we argue that the GATE architecture and visual development environment can be used as an effective tool for teaching language engineering and computational linguistics. Since GATE comes...
Marin Dimitrov, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard
This paper presents a lightweight approach to pronoun resolution in the case when the antecedent is a named entity. It falls under the category of the so-called ‘knowledge poor ’ approaches that...
Using HLT for Acquiring, Retrieving and Publishing Knowledge in AKT: Position Paper (2001)
Bontcheva, Dr. Kalina, Brewster, Mr. Christopher, Ciravegna, Dr. Fabio, Cunningham, Dr. Hamish, Guthrie, Dr. Louise, Gaizauskas, Dr. Rob, ...
AKT is a major research project applying a variety of technologies to knowledge management. Knowledge is a dynamic, ubiquitous resource, which is to be found equally in an expert's head, under...
Using HLT for Acquiring, Retrieving and Publishing Knowledge (2001)
Kalina Bontcheva, Christopher Brewster, Fabio Ciravegna, Hamish Cunningham, Louise Guthrie, Robert Gaizauskas, ...
AKT is a major research project applying a variety of technologies to knowledge management. Knowledge is a dynamic, ubiquitous resource, which is to be found equally in an expert's head, under...
Kalina Bontcheva, Yorick Wilks
The majority of existing language generation systems have a pipeline architecture which offers efficient sequential execution of modules, but does not allow decisions about text content to be revised...
Uniform Language Resource Access and Distribution (2000)
Hamish Cunningham, Wim Peters, Clare Mccauley, Kalina Bontcheva, Yorick Wilks
The reuseability and accessibility of lexical and linguistic resources often requires substantial programming overhead and detailed knowledge of the structure and nature of resource-specific...
Experience of using GATE for NLP R&D (2000)
Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan, Yorick Wilks
GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering, aims to provide a software infrastructure for researchers and developers working in NLP. GATE has now been widely available for four years. In this...
Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan, Yorick Wilks
This paper presents a taxonomy of previous work on infrastructures, architectures and development environments for representing and processing Language Resources (LRs), corpora, and annotations. This...
Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan, Yorick Wilks
This paper presents a taxonomy of previous work on infrastructures, architectures and development environments for representing and processing Language Resources (LRs), corpora, and annotations. This...
Generation of adaptive (hyper)text explanations with an agent model (1999)
Kalina Bontcheva, Yorick Wilks
A number of generation systems have chosen hypertext as a target media and study ways of adapting its content and links to the presentation context and the particular user. Our experience with...
Combining Language Generation and Belief Modelling into a Flexible Hypertext System (1997)
Kalina Bontcheva, Yorick Wilks
this paper we will outline how current dynamic hypertext systems maintain flexibility by assessing the variations in content and linking strategies as supported by the applied nlg techniques and user...
DB-MAT: Knowledge Acquisition, Processing and NL Generation Using Conceptual Graphs (1996)
Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva
. This paper presents some research results and a demo implementation of a knowledge-based Machine Aided Translation (MAT) system supporting the translation process with the necessary linguistic and...
DB-MAT: Knowledge Acquisition, Processing and NL Generation Using Conceptual Graphs (1996)
Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva
. This paper presents some research results and a demo implementation of a knowledge-based Machine Aided Translation (MAT) system supporting the translation process with the necessary linguistic and...
NL Domain Explanations in Knowledge Based MAT (1996)
Galja Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva
This paper discusses an innovative approach to knowledge based Machine Aided Translation (MAT) where the translator is supported by an userfriendly environment providing linguistic and domain...
NL domain explanations in knowledge based MAT (1996)
Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva
This paper discusses an innovative approach to knowledge based Machine Aided Translation (MAT) where the translator is supported by an user-friendly environment providing linguistic and domain...
CGPro - a PROLOG Implementation of Conceptual Graphs (1995)
Heike Petermann, Lutz Euler, Kalina Bontcheva
Natural language processing requires efficient and powerful tools for representing and processing knowledge. This paper introduces the system CGPro which implements the Conceptual Graphs (CG)...
Generation of Multilingual Explanations from Conceptual Graphs (1995)
This paper presents an approach for generation of multilingual explanations from Conceptual Graphs (cgs) in restricted domains with highly conventional language. The generator is developed within a...
Uniform Language Resource Access and Distribution
Hamish Cunningham Wim, Wim Peters, Clare Mccauley, Kalina Bontcheva, Yorick Wilks
The reuseability and accessibility of lexical and linguistic resources often requires substantial programming overhead and detailed knowledge of the structure and nature of resource-specific...
DB-MAT: A NL Based Interface to Domain Knowledge
Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva
Successful user-friendly interfaces will enable the application of knowledge based techniques in systems oriented towards end users who are not specialised in computer science. This paper discusses...