We describe improvements to the use of semantic lexicons by a state-of-the-art query interpretation system powering a major search engine. We successfully compute concept label im...
Previous research has taught us that the typical nonprofessional information seeker on the World Wide Web submits very short queries resulting in low-precision results. We show th...
This paper presents WikiTranslate, a system which performs query translation for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using only Wikipedia to obtain translations. Queries ar...
Dong Nguyen, Arnold Overwijk, Claudia Hauff, Dolf ...
The question whether a given set of views, defined by queries, can be used to answer another query, arises in several contexts such as query optimization, data integration and se...
Wikipedia has become an important source of information which is growing very rapidly. However, the existing infrastructure for querying this information is limited and often igno...
Huong Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen, Juliana Fr...