In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS-04), Springer-Verlag LNAI 3055, pp. 203-216. c 2004 by Springer-Verlag. To model qu...
Abstract. Highly heterogeneous XML collections are thematic collections exploiting different structures: the parent-child or ancestor-descendant relationships are not preserved and...
Ismael Sanz, Marco Mesiti, Giovanna Guerrini, Rafa...
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Semantic query optimization can dramatically speed up database query answering by knowledge intensive reformulation. But the problem of how to learn required semantic rules has no...