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W.E. Bosma
Researcher at VU University Amsterdam
Publications - 27
Citations - 391
W.E. Bosma is an academic researcher from VU University Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Question answering & Automatic summarization. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 27 publications receiving 387 citations. Previous affiliations of W.E. Bosma include University of Twente.
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KAF: a Generic Semantic Annotation Format
W.E. Bosma,Piek Vossen,Aitor Soroa,German Rigau,Maurizio Tesconi,Andrea Marchetti,Monica Monachini,Carlo Aliprandi +7 more
TL;DR: KAF is a layered and extendible linguistic annotation format that is specifically developed to arrive at semantic interoperability and is used in seven languages in several applications throughout the KYOTO project.
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Generating socially appropriate tutorial dialog
TL;DR: A dialog generator for pedagogical agents that takes motivation and face threat factors into account enables the agent to interact with learners in a socially appropriate fashion, and foster intrinsic motivation on the part of the learner, which in turn may lead to more positive learner affective states.
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Paraphrase substitution for recognizing textual entailment
W.E. Bosma,Chris Callison-Burch +1 more
TL;DR: A method for recognizing textual entailment that uses the length of the longest common subsequence between two texts as its decision criterion and performs a flexible match using automatically generated paraphrases is described.
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Dependency-based paraphrasing for recognizing textual entailment
TL;DR: A body restraint system that allows the user's body to be in the zero gravity neutral posture and a waist restraint in the form of a curved, padded unit containing a retractable belt coiled on a spring loaded capstan.
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Query-Based Summarization using Rhetorical Structure Theory
TL;DR: Existing question answering systems—which aim at finding precise answers to questions—can be improved by exploiting summarization techniques to extract more than just the answer from the document in which the answer resides.