Many open domain question answering systems answer questions by first harvesting a large number of candidate answers, and then picking the most promising one from the list. One c...
Stefan Schlobach, David Ahn, Maarten de Rijke, Val...
Web portals today offer a variety of content and services to their users. This content can be split into various categories and usually content semantically related is placed in t...
Christos Bouras, Giorgos Kounenis, Ioannis Misedak...
Abstract. We address the problem of answering queries using expressive symmetric inter-schema constraints which allow to establish mappings between several heterogeneous informatio...
Systems provide a rich abstraction within which divers concepts of reasoning, acceptability and defeasibility of arguments, etc., may be studied using a unified framework. Two imp...
It is commonly believed that word segmentation accuracy is monotonically related to retrieval performance in Chinese information retrieval. In this paper we show that, for Chinese...
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick ...