The most fundamental problem in information retrieval is that of interpreting information needs of users, typically expressed in a short query. Using the surface level representation of the query is especially unsatisfactory ...

With the fast growth of the amount of digitalized texts in recent years, text information management becomes increasingly important in people's daily life. Natural language processing provides the foundation of many modern ...

Traditional approaches to Natural Language Text Processing limit performance and flexibility by committing to canonical reprentations of input text, while many NLP applications for general tasks such as Textual Entailment ...