Intelligent Information Access

 Multilingual Information Access.
• Foreign-language search assistants for Document Retrieval, Question Answering and Information Synthesis tasks.
• Multilingual website search engines.
• Multilingual Phrase browsing and Terminology Retrieval.
• Shallow and efficient NLP for Information Access
• Intelligent organization, visualization and browsing of search results

 Evaluation of Information Access systems.
• Co-organizers of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF).
• Co-organizers of the Interactive Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (iCLEF).
• Co-organizers of the CLEF Cross-Language Question Answering track.

 Acquisition and representation of lexical and grammatical knowledge

 Word senses, lexical databases, multilingual semantic networks, multilingual thesauri.
 Word Sense Disambiguation.
 Mining the web for lexical information.

 

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