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CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz
CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Approaches to Collection Selection and Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Yves Rasolofo, Faiza Abbaci, Jacques Savoy
BMCBI
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
BIOZON: a system for unification, management and analysis of heterogeneous biological data
Integration of heterogeneous data types is a challenging problem, especially in biology, where the number of databases and data types increase rapidly. Amongst the problems that o...
Aaron Birkland, Golan Yona
ICDCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Specifying Weak Sets
nt formal speci cations of a new abstraction, weak sets, which can be used to alleviate high latencies when retrieving data from a wide-area information system like the World Wide...
Jeannette M. Wing, David C. Steere
ICPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Using web search engines to improve text recognition
In this paper we introduce a framework for automated text recognition from images. We first describe a simple but efficient text detection and recognition method based on analysis...
Horst Bischof, Michael Donoser, Silke Wagner