Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
We propose three heuristics to determine the country of origin of a person or institution via text-based IE from the Web. We evaluate all methods on a collection of music artists ...
Markus Schedl, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitze...
In the research project EPOS1 we build a pro-active, contextsensitive support system to aid the user with his knowledge work, which is mostly about searching, reading, creating, an...
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
This paper describes a research effort to improve the use of the cosine similarity information retrieval technique to detect unknown, known or variances of known rogue software by...