We propose a new unsupervised method for topic detection that automatically identifies the different facets of an event. We use pointwise Kullback-Leibler divergence along with th...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
This paper presents Wolverhampton University's participation in the WiQA competition. The method chosen for this task combines a high precision, but low recall information re...
User interfaces for digital libraries tend to focus on retrieval: users retrieve documents online, but then print them out and work with them on paper. One reason for printing doc...
Gene Golovchinsky, Morgan N. Price, Bill N. Schili...
Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system which uses the information available on the Web as an additional resource when searching for answers. Other externa...