Abstract. This paper suggests a novel representation for documents that is intended to improve precision. This representation is generated by combining two central techniques: Rand...
A model for reference use in communication is proposed, from a representationist point of view. Both the sender and the receiver of a message handle representations of their commo...
We argue for that taking into account semantic relations between words in the text can improve information retrieval performance. We implemented the process of information retrieva...
In the 1980s, plot units were proposed as a conceptual knowledge structure for representing and summarizing narrative stories. Our research explores whether current NLP technology...
Many of the available image databases have keyword annotations associated with the images. In spite of the availability of good quality low-level visual features that reflect wel...