This article describes an unsupervised strategy to acquire syntactico-semantic requirements of nouns, verbs, and adjectives from partially parsed text corpora. The linguistic notion of requirement underlying this strategy is based on two specific assumptions. First, it is assumed that two words in a dependency are mutually required. This phenomenon is called here corequirement. Second, it is al...

A knowledge management system is more than an archive of textual documents; it provides context information, allowing to know which documents where used by people with a common goal. In the hypothesis that a set of textual documents with a common context can be assimilated to the long term memory of a human expert executor, we can use on them mining techniques inspired by the mechanic of human ...

TeNDaX is a collaborative database-based real-time editor system. TeNDaX is a new approach for word-processing in which documents (i.e. content and structure, tables, images etc.) are stored in a database in a semi-structured way. This supports the provision of collaborative editing and layout, undoand redo operations, business process definition and execution within documents, security, and aw...

This paper examines the use of parallel and comparable corpora for automatic acquisition of semantics-extraction patterns. It presents a new method of the pattern extraction which takes advantage of parallel texts to “port” text mining solutions from a source language to a target language. It is shown that the technique can help in situations when the extraction procedure is to be applied in a ...

The aim of this chapter is twofold. Firstly to support academic staff from a variety of subject disciplines in higher education in the clarification between two different learner focused strategies, namely collaborative project-based (CPBL) and problem-based learning (PBL). Secondly, to provide practical advice to them to assist in the making of informed decisions as to when which strategy is m...

Wikis are well-known for supporting collaborative writing. They are focusing on asynchronous collaboration. Today, synchronous text editing in the web is supported by several tools and approaches. However, this possibility is still missing in wikis. Based on a prototype implementation, this paper presents design considerations for a wiki integrating synchronous collaborative editing as a specia...

Writer-based and reader-based views of text-meaning are reflected by the respective questions “What is the author trying to tell me?” and “What does this text mean to me personally?” Contemporary computational linguistics, however, generally takes neither view. But this is not adequate for the development of sophisticated applications such as intelligence gathering and question answering. I dis...