Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Abstract. We present a system for automatic FAX routing which processes incoming FAX images and forwards them to the correct email alias. The system first performs optical charact...
A data mining system can semi-automatically discover knowledge by mining a large volume of data, but the discovered knowledge is not always novel and may contain unreasonable facts...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...