Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Finding relevant publications in the large and rapidly growing body of biomedical literature is challenging. Search queries on PubMed often return thousands of publications and it ...
We present a method for automatically extracting from a running system an indexable signature that distills the essential characteristic from a system state and that can be subjec...