Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
In history and the other humanities, events and narrative sequences of events are often of primary interest. Yet while named events sometimes appear as subject headings, systems f...
Social bookmarking is the process through which users share tags for online resources like blogs with others. Such collaborative tags provide valuable metadata for retrieval syste...
Semantic overlay networks cluster peers that are semantically, thematically or socially close into groups by means of a rewiring procedure that is periodically executed by each pe...
We devise a method for automatically detecting treatment relationships using lexico-syntactic patterns and its application to medical-oriented patent retrieval. This process for d...