In this paper we introduce POLAR, a probabilistic objectoriented logical framework for annotation-based information retrieval. In POLAR, the knowledge about digital objects, annot...
Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. Ho...
Knowledge acquisition is a serious bottleneck for natural language understanding systems. For this reason, large-scale linguistic resources have been compiled and made available b...
Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, Katharine...
The Internet and Intranet reduce much of the costs of information sharing, but they do not solve receivers' reading and interpretation limitations. Alternatively, browsers an...
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of users of an object retrieval system. In this paper, we ...