[Abstract] Relation extraction is a subtask of information extraction that aims at obtaining instances of semantic relations present in texts. This information can be arranged in machine-readable formats, useful for several ...

[Abstract] This paper explores the incorporation of lexico-semantic heuristics into a deterministic Coreference Resolution (CR) system for classifying named entities at document-level. The highest precise sieves of a CR ...

[Abstract] Entity Linking (EL) consists in linking name mentions in a given text with their referring entities in external knowledge bases such as DBpedia/Wikipedia. In this paper, we propose an EL approach whose main ...

[Abstract] This paper presents the method used to create a multilingual online dictionary of collocations of English, Portuguese, and Spanish. This resource is built automatically and contains three types of collocations: ...

[Abstract] Several recent studies have observed that texts of different quality and written by learners at different proficiency levels also vary in the lexical combinations they contain. Such variation can be operationalized ...

[Abstract] This paper presents an exploration of different statistical association measures to automatically identify collocations from corpora in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. To evaluate the impact of the association ...

[Abstract]: We describe four systems to generate automatically bilingual dictionaries based on existing ones: three transitive systems differing only in the pivot language used, and a system based on a different ...