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CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 3 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 2 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
164views more  BMCBI 2006»
14 years 10 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 1 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
15 years 11 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