In this paper, we present Concept Chain Queries (CCQ), a special case of text mining in document collections focusing on detecting links between two topics across text documents. ...
Using the same interactive IR component as for TREC 2006, this submission probed the ability of a user without requisite domain knowledge to interactively set appropriate weights....
Retrieval in historic documents with non-standard spelling requires a mapping from search terms onto the historic terms in the document. For describing this mapping, we have develo...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...
A number of content management tasks, including term categorization, term clustering, and automated thesaurus generation, view natural language terms (e.g. words, noun phrases) as...
Alberto Lavelli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Roberto Zano...