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OZCHI
2009
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
Doing things backwards: the OWL project
The OWL project is inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law of Technology Prediction: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It consists of a s...
Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval
Abstract One of the main hurdles to improved CLIR effectiveness is resolving ambiguity associated with translation. Availability of resources is also a problem. First we present a ...
Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Understanding the Semantics of Ambiguous Tags in Folksonomies
The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the nam...
Ching-man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbo...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Generation of Referring Expressions: Managing Structural Ambiguities
Existing algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions tend to generate distinguishing descriptions at the semantic level, disregarding the ways in which surface issues c...
Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Kees van Deemter, Graeme Ritc...
ESWS
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
Reducing Ambiguity in Tagging Systems with Folksonomy Search Expansion
Abstract. Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer...
Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Taylor, Edward Thomas