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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Modeling higher-order term dependencies in information retrieval using query hypergraphs
Many of the recent, and more effective, retrieval models have incorporated dependencies between the terms in the query. In this paper, we advance this query representation one st...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft
NLDB
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Querying Linked Data Using Semantic Relatedness: A Vocabulary Independent Approach
Abstract. Linked Data brings the promise of incorporating a new dimension to the Web where the availability of Web-scale data can determine a paradigmatic transformation of the Web...
André Freitas, João Gabriel Oliveira...
ACL
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Joint Annotation of Search Queries
Marking up search queries with linguistic annotations such as part-of-speech tags, capitalization, and segmentation, is an important part of query processing and understanding in ...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
CIDR
2009
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13 years 4 months ago
DBMSs Should Talk Back Too
Natural language user interfaces to database systems have been studied for several decades now. They have mainly focused on parsing and interpreting natural language queries to ge...
Alkis Simitsis, Yannis E. Ioannidis
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Use of Default Reasoning for Disambiguation Under Question Answering
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of defaul...
Boris Galitsky
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine
We propose a new approach to a music search engine that can be accessed via natural language queries. As with existing approaches, we try to gather as much contextual information a...
Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, Dominik Sch...
ACL
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths
Web search engines today typically show results as a list of titles and short snippets that summarize how the retrieved documents are related to the query. However, recent researc...
Michael Kaisser, Marti A. Hearst, John B. Lowe
EWCBR
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Realising a CBR-based approach for Computer Cooking Contest with e: IAS
Abstract. This paper describes a web-based CBR application competing at the first Computer Cooking Contest at the ECCBR 2008. It describes the technical realisation of our system, ...
Alexandre Hanft, Norman Ihle, Kerstin Bach, R&eacu...
ICMCS
1999
IEEE
131views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 1999»
13 years 8 months ago
Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a Natural Language Query System
The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of m...
Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin...
ICCPOL
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Processing of Korean Natural Language Queries Using Local Grammars
Abstract. For casual web users, a natural language is more accessible than formal query languages. However, understanding of a natural language query is not trivial for computer sy...
Tae-Gil Noh, Yong-Jin Han, Seong-Bae Park, Se-Youn...