Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...
This paper describes a question answering system that automatically finds answers to questions in a large collection of documents. The prototype CNLP question answering system was...
Anne Diekema, Xiaoyong Liu, Jiangping Chen, Hudong...
Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...
Informationretrieval systems typically weight the importance of search terms according to document and collection statistics (such as by using tf idf scores, where less commonterm...
In this paper, we study query processing in a distributed text database. The novelty is a real distributed architecture implementation that offers concurrent query service. The di...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...