The original PageRank algorithm for improving the ranking of search-query results computes a single vector, using the link structure of the Web, to capture the relative "impor...
We describe here a methodology to combine two different techniques for Semantic Relation Extraction from texts. On the one hand, generic lexicosyntactic patterns are applied to the...
Discovering the significant relations embedded in documents would be very useful not only for information retrieval but also for question answering and summarization. Prior method...
Ray tracing techniques need supersampling to reduce aliasing and/or noise in the final image. Since not all the pixels in the image require the same number of rays, supersampling...
Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...