This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
1 The latent semantic indexing (LSI) methodology for information retrieval applies the singular value decomposition to identify an eigensystem for a large matrix, in which cells re...
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
In the third edition of WePS campaign we have undertaken the person name disambiguation problem referred to as a clustering task. Our aim was to make use of intrinsic link relation...
Elena Smirnova, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Brigitte T...
Abstract. We present an intelligent information agent that uses semantic methods and natural language processing capabilites in order to gather tourist information from the WWW and...
Steffen Staab, Christian Braun, Ilvio Bruder, Antj...