We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
In this paper we explore the effectiveness of three clustering methods used to perform word image indexing. The three methods are: the Self-Organazing Map (SOM), the Growing Hiera...
Web services are becoming prevalent nowadays. Finding desired Web services is becoming an emergent and challenging research problem. In this paper, we present WSExpress (Web Servi...
Web services are designed to standardize interactions between heterogeneous applications using Internet technologies. Within the framework of Internet search technologies, Web ser...