This paper addresses the problem of categorizing terms or lexical entities into a predefined set of semantic domains exploiting the knowledge available on-line in the Web. The prop...
Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Marco Ernande...
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Social annotation has gained increasing popularity in many Web-based applications, leading to an emerging research area in text analysis and information retrieval. This paper is c...
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...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...