While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
Abstract. Content-oriented XML retrieval systems support access to XML repositories by retrieving, in response to user queries, XML document components (XML elements) instead of wh...
We investigate the novel problem of event recognition from news webpages. "Events" are basic text units containing news elements. We observe that a news article is always...
Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
We propose an approach for extracting relations between entities from biomedical literature based solely on shallow linguistic information. We use a combination of kernel function...