Valentin Tablan


2013

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AnnoMarket: An Open Cloud Platform for NLP
Valentin Tablan | Kalina Bontcheva | Ian Roberts | Hamish Cunningham | Marin Dimitrov
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

2008

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A Text-based Query Interface to OWL Ontologies
Danica Damljanovic | Valentin Tablan | Kalina Bontcheva
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

Accessing structured data in the form of ontologies requires training and learning formal query languages (e.g., SeRQL or SPARQL) which poses significant difficulties for non-expert users. One of the ways to lower the learning overhead and make ontology queries more straightforward is through a Natural Language Interface (NLI). While there are existing NLIs to structured data with reasonable performance, they tend to require expensive customisation to each new domain or ontology. Additionally, they often require specific adherence to a pre-defined syntax which, in turn, means that users still have to undergo training. In this paper we present Question-based Interface to Ontologies (QuestIO) - a tool for querying ontologies using unconstrained language-based queries. QuestIO has a very simple interface, requires no user training and can be easily embedded in any system or used with any ontology or knowledge base without prior customisation.

2006

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Creating Tools for Morphological Analysis of Sumerian
Valentin Tablan | Wim Peters | Diana Maynard | Hamish Cunningham
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

Sumerian is a long-extinct language documented throughout the ancient MiddleEast, arguably the first language for which we have written evidence, and is a language isolate (i.e. no related languages have so far been identified). The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), based at theUniversity of Oxford, aims to make accessible on the web over 350 literary workscomposed during the late third and early second millennia BCE. The transliterations and translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website. In this paper we describe the creation of linguistic analysis and corpus search tools for Sumerian, as part of the development of the ETCSL. This is designed to enable Sumerian scholars, students and interested laymen to analyse the texts online and electronically, and to further knowledge about the language.

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User-friendly ontology authoring using a controlled language
Valentin Tablan | Tamara Polajnar | Hamish Cunningham | Kalina Bontcheva
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

In recent years, following the rapid development in the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management research, ontologies have become more in demand in Natural Language Processing. An increasing number of systems use ontologies either internally, for modelling the domain of the application, or as data structures that hold the output resulting from the work of the system, in the form of knowledge bases. While there are many ontology editing tools aimed at expert users, there are very few which are accessible to users wishing to create simple structures without delving into the intricacies of knowledge representation languages. The approach described in this paper allows users to create and edit ontologies simply by using a restricted version of the English language. The controlled language described within is based on an open vocabulary and a restricted set of grammatical constructs. Sentences written in this language unambiguously map into a number of knowledge representation formats including OWL and RDF-S to allow round-trip ontology management.

2004

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Web Services Architecture for Language Resources
Angelo Dalli | Valentin Tablan | Kalina Bontcheva | Yorick Wilks | Daan Broeder | Hennie Brugman | Peter Wittenburg
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2003

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OLLIE: On-Line Learning for Information Extraction
Valentin Tablan | Kalina Bontcheva | Diana Maynard | Hamish Cunningham
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Software Engineering and Architecture of Language Technology Systems (SEALTS)

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NE Recognition Without Training Data on a Language You Don’t Speak
Diana Maynard | Valentin Tablan | Hamish Cunningham
Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition

2002

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GATE: an Architecture for Development of Robust HLT applications
Hamish Cunningham | Diana Maynard | Kalina Bontcheva | Valentin Tablan
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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A Unicode-based Environment for Creation and Use of Language Resources
Valentin Tablan | Cristian Ursu | Kalina Bontcheva | Hamish Cunningham | Diana Maynard | Oana Hamza | Tony McEnery | Paul Baker | Mark Leisher
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)

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Using GATE as an Environment for Teaching NLP
Kalina Bontcheva | Hamish Cunningham | Valentin Tablan | Diana Maynard | Oana Hamza
Proceedings of the ACL-02 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics

2000

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Software Infrastructure for Language Resources: a Taxonomy of Previous Work and a Requirements Analysis
Hamish Cunningham | Kalina Bontcheva | Valentin Tablan | Yorick Wilks
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

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Experience using GATE for NLP R&D
Hamish Cunningham | Diana Maynard | Kalina Bontcheva | Valentin Tablan | Yorick Wilks
Proceedings of the COLING-2000 Workshop on Using Toolsets and Architectures To Build NLP Systems

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An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Discourse Structure and Co-Reference
Dan Cristea | Nancy Ide | Daniel Marcu | Valentin Tablan
COLING 2000 Volume 1: The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1999

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Discourse Structure and Co-Reference: An Empirical Study
Dan Cristea | Nancy Ide | Daniel Marcu | Valentin Tablan
The Relation of Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference