Marco Ernandes, Giovanni Angelini, Marco Gori
Language games represent one of the most fascinating challenges of research in artificial intelligence. In this paper we give an overview of WebCrow, a system that tackles crosswords using the Web as a knowledge base. This appears to be a novel approach with respect to the available literature. It is also the first solver for non- English crosswords and it has been designed to be potentially multilingual. Although WebCrow has been implemented only in a preliminary version, it already displays very interesting results reaching the performance of a human beginner: crosswords that are "easy" for expert humans are solved, within competition time limits, with 80 percent of correct words and over 90 percent of correct letters.
Content Area: 19. Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, and Extraction
Subjects: 1.10 Information Retrieval; 15.2 Constraint Satisfaction
Submitted: May 9, 2005
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