At present, adapting an Information Extraction system to new topics is an expensive and slow process, requiring some knowledge engineering for each new topic. We propose a new par...
We present sppc, a high-performance system for intelligent text extraction and navigation from German free text documents. sppc consists of a set of domainindependent shallow core...
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
This paper proposes a Unified Dynamic Relation Tree (DRT) span for tree kernel-based semantic relation extraction between entity names. The basic idea is to apply a variety of lin...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...