We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
SimRank has been considered as one of the promising link-based ranking algorithms to evaluate similarities of web documents in many modern search engines. In this paper, we investi...
Abstract. We propose in this paper to use NLP approaches to validate induced syntactic relations. We focus on a Web Validation system, a Semantic Vector-based approach, and finally...
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
In this paper, we propose a method for mediatory summarization, which is a novel technique for facilitating users' assessments of the credibility of information on the Web. A...