2. Search and retrieval of textual information

The field of automatic language processing (ALP) is known to the general public through two flagship applications: machine translation and spelling and grammar correction of documents . In fact, both have been integrated, with varying degrees of success, into everyday working environments (search engines, word processors). Alongside these traditional tasks, other applications have been developed to meet the needs mentioned above, which can be summed up as the need for more intelligent access to textual information. Within this field, there are two main types of objective:...