Crosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) usually requires query translation and, due to named entities in the case of IR, query translation requires a good transliteration system ...
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of the ESTEST system, which combines the data integration approach with techniques from Information Extraction in order to allow information ...
A great deal of work has been carried out in recent years to facilitate access to data and information available on the Web. Proposals converge in two additional areas which consis...
Passage retrieval consists in identifying short but informative runs of a long text, given a specific user query. We discuss the sources of evidence that help choosing likely high-...
DBin is a Semantic Web application that enables groups of users with a common interest to cooperatively create semantically structured knowledge bases. These user groups, which we...