Noun phrases carry much of the information in a text. Systems that attempt to acquire knowledge from text must first decompose complex noun phrases to get access to that informatio...
Analysisof a corpus of queries to a statistical database has shown considerable variation in the location and order of modifiers in complex noun phrases. Nevertheless, restriction...
Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Dan Fass, Gary Hal...
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
Gary Geunbae Lee, Jungyun Seo, Seungwoo Lee, Hanmi...
This paper presents a framework for combining semantic relations extracted from text to reveal even more semantics that otherwise would be missed. A set of 26 relations is introdu...
Eduardo Blanco 0002, Hakki C. Cankaya, Dan I. Mold...
A layered approach to information retrieval permits the inclusion of multiple search engines as well as multiple databases, with a natural language layer to convert English querie...