Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Noun phrases of a document usually are the main information bearers. Thus, the detection of these units is crucial in many applications related to information retrieval, such as co...
Ontologies are a well-motivated formal representation to model knowledge needed to extract and encode data from text. Yet, their tight integration with Information Extraction (IE)...
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...