The automatic extraction of information from unstructured sources has opened up new avenues for querying, organizing, and analyzing data by drawing upon the clean semantics of str...
The starting point of this paper is the external surface of a word form, for example the agent-external acoustic perturbations constituting a language sign in speech or the dots o...
Background: When term ambiguity and variability are very high, dictionary-based Named Entity Recognition (NER) is not an ideal solution even though large-scale terminological reso...
Yutaka Sasaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, John McNaught, ...
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...