This paper presents CELI’s participation in the SemEval Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization task.

This year, besides providing support to other groups participating in cross-language Question Answering (QA) tasks, and submitting runs both for the monolingual Italian and the cross-language Italian/English tasks, the ITC-irst participation in the CLEF campaign concentrated on the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE). The participation in the AVE task, with an answer validation module based on tex...

Este artigo baseia-se em uma pesquisa que culminou tese de doutorado sobre a relação entre compreensão leitora, consciência textual e escritura argumentativa, pautando-se especialmente postulados psicolinguísticos. Nesse sentido, buscou-se contribuir para o aprimoramento práticas pedagógicas concernentes à leitura produção textual, considerando importante papel exerce nesse processo. A objetivo...

Hypernymy relation acquisition has been widely investigated, especially because taxonomies, which often constitute the backbone structure of semantic resources are structured using this type of relations. Although lots of approaches have been dedicated to this task, most of them analyze only the written text. However relations between not necessarily contiguous textual units can be expressed, t...

Text-rich structured data become more and more ubiquitous on the Web and on the enterprise databases by encoding heterogeneous structural information between entities such as people, locations, or organizations and the associated textual information. For analyzing this type of data, existing topic modeling approaches, which are highly tailored toward document collections, require manually-defin...

The paper introduces a descriptive data mining method to discover knowledge for the task of automatic categorization in document image analysis. We argue that a document image is a multi-modal unit of analysis whose semantics is deduced from a combination of textual content, layout structure and logical structure. So, the method considers simultaneously different modalities of document represen...