In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Complex Nominals (CNs) have simple syntactic structure that conceals non-trivial semantic characteristics. While speakers of natural languages combine noun(s)/adjective(s) with a h...
Building effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments’ audience: the learners. This paper focus...
Comparison of 3-dimensional protein folds is a core problem in molecular biology. The Contact Map Overlap (CMO) scheme provides one of the most common measures for protein structur...
This paper discusses our system’s results at the Spanish Question Answering task of CLEF 2007. Our system is centered in a full data-driven approach that combines information ret...