Query-independent features (also called document priors), such as the number of incoming links to a document, its Page-Rank, or the type of its associated URL, have been successfu...
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
We present a generic natural language processing (NLP) architecture, acronym QTIL, based on a system of cooperating multiple agents (Q/A, T, I, and L agents) which can be used in ...
For dynamic sales dialogs in electronic commerce scenarios, approaches based on an information gain measure used for attribute selection have been suggested. These measures conside...
Background: The most renowned biological ontology, Gene Ontology (GO) is widely used for annotations of genes and gene products of different organisms. However, there are shortcom...