Visual information retrieval (VIR) is a research area with more than 300 scientific publications every year. Technological progress lets surveys become out of date within a short ...
Recent work in Question Answering has focused on web-based systems that extract answers using simple lexicosyntactic patterns. We present an alternative strategy in which patterns...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Ech...
A prerequisite for all higher level information extraction tasks is the identication of unknown names in text. Today, when large corpora can consist of billions of words, it is of...
In order to evaluate the performance of information retrieval and extraction algorithms, we need test collections. A test collection consists of a set of documents, a clearly form...
We have been developing a spoken language system to recognize and understand spontaneous speech. It is difficult for such systems to achieve good coverage of the lexicon and gramm...