Privacy is one of the main societal concerns raised by critics of the uncontrolled growth and spread of information technology in developed societies. The purpose of this paper is ...
Quintin Armour, William Elazmeh, Nour El-Kadri, Na...
In this paper we propose the model of a prototypical NLP architecture of an information access system to support a team of experts in a scientific design task, in a shared and hete...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Marco Pennacchiotti, Michel...
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
The process of extracting useful knowledge from large datasets has become one of the most pressing problems in today’s society. The problem spans entire sectors, from scientists...
Static index pruning techniques aim at removing from the posting lists of an inverted file the references to documents which are likely to be not relevant for answering user querie...