Ranking of query/search answers, although introduced by early information retrieval systems, has become mandatory for internet searches. When the answers of a query or search are ...
Seamless integration of digital parts libraries or electronic parts catalogs for e-procurement is impeded by semantic heterogeneity. The utilization of ontologies as metadata desc...
Business intelligence requires the collecting and merging of information from many different sources, both structured and unstructured, in order to analyse for example financial ...
As the amount of available data continues to increase, more and more effective means for discovering important patterns and relationships within that data are required. Although t...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...