Sergei Nirenburg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sergei Nirenburg is involved.
Articles
2015 The Ontological Semantic treatment of multiword expressions Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:1, pp. 73–110 | Article
This paper describes, and presents a formal evaluation of, the Ontological Semantic approach to automatically analyzing multiword expressions. It shows how multiword expressions can be lexically recorded and processed in the same way as compositional argument-taking words. It suggests that the… read more
2010 The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 221–244 | Article
This chapter describes a conversational agent environment, the Maryland Virtual Patient (MVP). MVP models the process of disease progression, diagnosis and treatment in virtual patients endowed with a “body,” a simulation of their physiological and pathological processes, and a “mind,” a set of… read more
2000 Toward full-text ontology-based word sense disambiguation Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97, Nicolov, Nicolas and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 131–142 | Article