Background: The increasing amount of published literature in biomedicine represents an immense source of knowledge, which can only efficiently be accessed by a new generation of a...
This paper presents a system that retrieves descriptive phrases of proper nouns from free text. Sentences holding the specified noun are ranked using a technique based on pattern ...
In many situations, individuals or groups of individuals are faced with the need to examine sets of documents to achieve understanding of their structure and to locate relevant in...
Alneu de Andrade Lopes, Roberto Pinho, Fernando Vi...
In this paper we propose a novel document retrieval model in which text queries are augmented with multi-dimensional taxonomy restrictions. These restrictions may be relaxed at a ...
Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski, Ravi Kumar, Chr...
Previous research has shown that Alphasliders are an effective tool for searching an alphabetically sorted list when only limited screen space is available for the graphical user ...