Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
Expert decision-makers often explain decisions by citing general principles. In some domains, however, it is nearly impossible to define principles intensionally so that they may ...
The PISAB Question Answering system is based on a combination of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval techniques. Knowledge extracted from documents is modeled as a se...
In this paper we describe our participation in CLEF-IP 2009 (prior art search task). This was the first year of the task and we focused on how to build effectively a prior art quer...
The volume of biomedical literature is increasing at such a rate that it is becoming difficult to locate, retrieve and manage the reported information without text mining, which a...
Irena Spasic, Sophia Ananiadou, John McNaught, Ana...