The Slot Filling task requires a system to automatically distill information from a large document collection and return answers for a query entity with specified attributes (`slot...
Zheng Chen, Suzanne Tamang, Adam Lee, Xiang Li, Ma...
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...
—This paper proposes a probabilistic technique that enables a node to estimate the number of its neighbors that fulfill certain criteria. The technique does not require any a pr...
Helmut Adam, Evsen Yanmaz, Wilfried Elmenreich, Ch...
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...
This paper presents the method for retrieving and summarizing changes in topics from online resources. Users often want to know what are the major changes in their areas of intere...