The fifth QA campaign at CLEF, the first having been held in 2006. was characterized by continuity with the past and at the same time by innovation. In fact, topics were introduce...
Collaborative work environments for scientific knowledge have many applications in research as well as in education. Such systems already exist (e.g. Wikipedia and PlanetMath), b...
This paper pursues the recently emerging paradigm of searching for entities that are embedded in Web pages. We utilize informationextraction techniques to identify entity candidat...
Julia Stoyanovich, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Klaus Ber...
Most geographic information retrieval systems depend on the detection and disambiguation of place names in documents, assuming that the documents with a specific geographic scope ...
Evaluating complex Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems can prove extremely difficult. In many cases, the best one can do is to evaluate these systems indirectly, by looking ...