Background: Like text in other domains, biomedical documents contain a range of terms with more than one possible meaning. These ambiguities form a significant obstacle to the aut...
Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo, Robert J. Gaizauskas, D...
We present in this paper an approach to assessing student paraphrases in the intelligent tutoring system iSTART. The approach is based on measuring the semantic similarity between ...
Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Arthur C. Graesser, ...
This paper describes a method, using Genetic Programming, to automatically determine term weighting schemes for the vector space model. Based on a set of queries and their human de...
This paper deals with the problem of recognizing and extracting acronymdefinition pairs in Swedish medical texts. This project applies a rule-based method to solve the acronym rec...
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...