Abstract. Geographic place names are semantically often highly ambiguous. For example, there are 491 places in Finland sharing the same name "Isosaari" (great island) tha...
Tomi Kauppinen, Riikka Henriksson, Reetta Sinkkil&...
The problem of dividing a sequence of values into segments occurs in database systems, information retrieval, and knowledge management. The challenge is to select a finite number ...
While the average performance of statistical parsers gradually improves, they still attach to many sentences annotations of rather low quality. The number of such sentences grows ...
Internet user forums have been proven to be effective not just as a community meeting place but also as a supporting tool for various business products. Traditional forums are desi...
This paper compares several indexing methods for person names extracted from text, developed for an information retrieval system with requirements for fast approximate matching of...