The Keyword Translator is a part of the Question Analyzer module in the JAVELIN Question-Answering system; it translates the keywords that are used to query documents and extract a...
In this paper we describe our participation in CLEF-IP 2009 (prior art search task). This was the first year of the task and we focused on how to build effectively a prior art quer...
There has been a tremendous growth in the amount of information and resources on the World Wide Web that are useful to researchers and practitioners in science domains. While the ...
Michael Chau, Zan Huang, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Hs...
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
In order to solve medical multimodal queries, we propose to split the queries in different dimensions using ontology. We extract both textual and visual terms depending on the ont...