Broad-coverage lexical resources such as WordNet are extremely useful. However, they often include many rare senses while missing domain-specific senses. We present a clustering a...
We propose a method of synonymous paraphrasing of a text based on WordNet synonymy data and Internet statistics of stable word combinations (collocations). Given a text, we look fo...
This paper presents the first participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Photo Retrieval task at Image CLEF 2008. Our system uses Lucene for text indexing and LIRE for ...
Background: A huge amount of biomedical textual information has been produced and collected in MEDLINE for decades. In order to easily utilize biomedical information in the free t...
This paper explores the possibility to exploit text on the world wide web in order to enrich the concepts in existing ontologies. First, a method to retrieve documents from the WWW...
Eneko Agirre, Olatz Ansa, Eduard H. Hovy, David Ma...