Business intelligence requires the collecting and merging of information from many different sources, both structured and unstructured, in order to analyse for example financial ...
As the amount of available data continues to increase, more and more effective means for discovering important patterns and relationships within that data are required. Although t...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
Abstract. A central task when integrating data from different sources is to detect identical items. For example, price comparison websites have to identify offers for identical p...
In order for agents and humans to leverage the growing wealth of heterogeneous information and services on the web, increasingly, they need to understand the information that is d...