We perform a survey into the scope and utility of opinion mining in legal Weblogs (a.k.a. blawgs). The number of `blogs' in the legal domain is growing at a rapid pace and ma...
The Answer Validation Exercise at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer of a Question Answering system is correct or...
In the challenges faced by organisations in the area of knowledge management, there is clearly a role for information and communications technologies in supporting the exploitatio...
This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
The TREC 2004 Terabyte Track evaluated information retrieval in largescale text collections, using a set of 25 million documents (426 GB). This paper gives an overview of our expe...