We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for "scaling" up or down...
The Web contains a vast amount of text that can only be queried using simple keywords-in, documentsout search queries. But Web text often contains structured elements, such as hot...
In many domains, decision makers want to find and understand patterns of events as these patterns often give insight into the causal relationships among events. Current systems to...