Access to on-line information via the Web is exploding. Index and retrieval engines already start to integrate a huge variety of heterogeneous repositories. However, the heterogen...
Boris Chidlovskii, Uwe M. Borghoff, Pierre-Yves Ch...
The proliferation of digital libraries and the large amount of existing documents raise important issues in efficient handling of documents. Printed texts in documents need to be...
Interoperability is one of the main issues in creating a networked system of repositories The approaches range from simply forcing one metadata standard on all participating repos...
Marek Hatala, Griff Richards, Timmy Eap, Jordan Wi...
Business models on the basis of digital content require sophisticated descriptions of that content, as well as service-oriented carrier architectures that allow to negotiate and en...
Wernher Behrendt, Aldo Gangemi, Wolfgang Maass 000...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...