Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
This paper addresses the problem of categorizing terms or lexical entities into a predefined set of semantic domains exploiting the knowledge available on-line in the Web. The prop...
Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Marco Ernande...
In this paper, we try to leverage a large-scale and multilingual knowledge base, Wikipedia, to help effectively analyze and organize Web information written in different languages...
Both Topic Maps and RDF are popular semantic web standards designed for machine processing of web documents. Since these representations were originally created for different purpo...