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 ...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
The development of high-throughput genome sequencing and protein structure determination techniques have provided researchers with a wealth of biological data. Integrated analysis...
William M. Shui, Raymond K. Wong, Stephen C. Graha...
Opinion retrieval is a document retrieval process, which requires documents to be retrieved and ranked according to their opinions about a query topic. A relevant document must sa...
In this paper, we propose an original approach for content-based video indexing and retrieval. It relies on the tracking of entities of interest and the analysis of their apparent...