Presented at Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment: 14th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2023, Lucca, Italy, Proceedings, LNICST, Springer, pages 193-209.
The paper extends the WebCrow 2.0 crossword solver to French, making it the first automatic solver for French crosswords, with modules that draw on the web, knowledge graphs and linguistic rules to make up for scarce past puzzle data. In two challenges against human solvers it was faster and more accurate than the humans.
Authors: Giovanni Angelini, Marco Ernandes, Tommaso Iaquinta, Caroline Stehlé, Fanny Simões, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Andrea Zugarini, Marco Gori.