Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
Component-based software engineering attempts to address the ever increasing demand for new software applications by enabling a compositional approach to software construction in ...
Semantic data transformation plays an important role in realizing the vision of the semantic web. It supports the transformation of data in different representations into ontologi...
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...