Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...
The crawler engines of today cannot reach most of the information contained in the Web. A great amount of valuable information is "hidden" behind the query forms of onli...
The probabilistic network technology is a knowledgebased technique which focuses on reasoning under uncertainty. Because of its well defined semantics and solid theoretical founda...
Versioned document collections are collections that contain multiple versions of each document. Important examples are Web archives, Wikipedia and other wikis, or source code and ...
Recently, there has been a growth in the amount of machine readable information pertaining to the biomedical field. With this growth comes a desire to be able to extract informati...