Gazetteer services are an important component in a wide variety of systems, including geographic search engines and question answering systems. Unfortunately, the footprints provid...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
Ordered lists of objects are widely used as representational forms. Such ordered objects include Web search results and best-seller lists. Techniques for processing such ordinal d...
This paper presents a large-scale system for the recognition and semantic disambiguation of named entities based on information extracted from a large encyclopedic collection and ...
We study methods to initialize or bias different clustering methods using prior information about the "importance" of a keyword w.r.t. the whole document collection or a...
This paper presents the DIOGENE question/answering system developed at ITCIrst. The system is based on a rather standard architecture which includes three components for question ...