This paper tackles the problem of term ambiguity, especially for biomedical literature. We propose and evaluate two methods of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) for biomedical terms ...
The reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) problem, i.e. finding all objects in a data set the k-nearest neighbors of which include a specified query object, is a generalization of the...
Latent relational search is a new search paradigm based on the degree of analogy between two word pairs. A latent relational search engine is expected to return the word Paris as a...
This paper presents approaches for building, managing, and evaluating consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent h...
Although the application of data fusion in information retrieval has yielded good results in the majority of the cases, it has been noticed that its achievement is dependent on the...