Publications
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What have we been writing lately ?
in 2013
[17] Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, João Silva, Hugo Rodrigues. 2013. Just.Ask - A multi-pronged approach to question answering, in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 22, n. 1
in 2012
[16] Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur. 2012. Question Generation based on Lexico-Syntactic Patterns Learned from the Web, in Dialogue & Discourse, vol. 3, n. 2, pages 147-175
[15] Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur. 2012. When the answer comes into question in question-answering: survey and open issues, in Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press
[14] Ângela Costa, Tiago Luís, Joana Ribeiro, Ana Cristina Mendes and Luísa Coheur. 2012. An English-Portuguese parallel corpus of questions: translation guidelines and application in Statistical Machine Translation, in LREC 2012, the international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
[13] Pedro Fialho, Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur. 2012. Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability, in LREC 2012, the international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
in 2011
[12] Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur. 2011. A minimally supervised approach for question generation: what can we learn from a single seed?, accepted in EPIA 2011, the 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
[11] Catarina Moreira, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Bruno Martins. 2011. Towards the Rapid Development of a Natural Language Understanding Module, in Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents - 11th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011 (bibtex)
[10] Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur. 2011. Exploring linguistically-rich patterns for question generation, accepted in UCNLG+Eval2011, EMNLP 2011 Workshop: Language Generation and Evaluation
[9] Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur. 2011. An approach to answer selection in Question Answering based on semantic relations, accepted in IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
[8] João Silva, Luísa Coheur, Ana Cristina Mendes, Andreas Wichert. 2011. From symbolic to sub-symbolic information in question classification in Artificial Intelligence Review, Volume 35, Pages 137-154, 2011 (DOI 10.1007/s10462-010-9188-4)
[7] Ana Cristina Mendes, Sérgio Curto, Luísa Coheur. 2011. Bootstrapping Multiple-Choice Tests with The-MENTOR, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICling 2011, Springer-Verlag, vol. 6608, pages 451-562, Tokyo, February 2011
[6] Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur. 2011. It's answer time, taking the Next in Question-Answering, accepted in ICAART 2011 - Third International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
in 2010
[5] Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Paula Vaz Lobo. 2010. Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection in Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10). N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odjik, S. Piperidis, M. Rosner, D. Tapias, Eds. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). (bibtex)
in 2009
[4] Ana Cristina Mendes, Rui Prada, Luísa Coheur. 2009. Adapting a Virtual Agent to Users Vocabulary and Needs, in IVA '09: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Z. Ruttkay, M. Kipp, A. Nijholt, and H. H. Vilhjálmsson, Eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5773, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pages 529-530 (short paper) (bibtex)
The corresponding poster presented at IVA 2009.
[3] Luísa Coheur, Ana Mendes, João Guimarães, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro. 2009. Question Interpretation in QA@L2F, in Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access: 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. C. Peters, T. Deselaers, N. Ferro, J. Gonzalo, G. J.F.Jones, M. Kurimo, T. Mandl, A. Peñas & V. Petras, Eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5706, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pages 377-384 (bibtex)
in 2008
[2] Ana Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, David Martins de Matos. 2008. QA@L2F, first steps at QA@CLEF, in Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. C. Peters, V. Jijkoun, T. Mandl, H. Müller, D. W. Oard, A. Peñas, V. Petras, and D. Santos, Eds. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5152. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 356-363 (bibtex)
The corresponding poster presented at CLEF 2007.
in 2007
[1] Ana Raquel Guimarães, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ana Mendes. 2007. A natural language interface to a cinema database. In Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN), Poster
