Abstract. Can a system designed primarily for the purpose of databasetype storage and retrieval be used for information-retrieval tasks? This was one of the questions that led us t...
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...
Abstract. Ordered Choice Logic Programming (OCLP) allows for dynamic preference-based decision-making with multiple alternatives without the need for any form of negation. This com...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...