Natural language processing (NLP) is a part of the artificial intelligence domain focused on
communication between humans and computers. NLP attempts to address the inherent …

W endy L ehnert that is more readily digested and analyzed. It isolates relevant text
fragments, extracts relevant information from the fragments, and then pieces together the …

The symposium on which this volume was based brought together approximately fifty
scientists from a variety of backgrounds to discuss the rapidly-emerging set of competing …

In this paper we give a synoptic view of the growth of the text processing technology of
information extraction (IE) whose function is to extract information about a pre‐specified set …

The future of natural language text processing is examined in the SCISOR prototype.
Drawing on artificial intelligence techniques, and applying them to financial news items, this …

I survey four viewpoints about what AI is. I describe a program exhibiting AI as one that can
change as a result of interactions with the user. Such a program would have to process …

While complete understanding of arbitrary input text remains in the future, it is currently
possible to construct natural language processing systems that provide a partial …

Document types, where visual and textual information plays an important role in their
analysis and understanding, pose a new and attractive area for information extraction …

The kind of application that the text categorization shell, TCS, can produce is characterized.
Many of its applications have great commercial value. The design goals for TCS are …

The availability of large amounts of computer-readable textual data and hardware that can
process the data has shifted the focus of knowledge projects towards deep learning …