Abstract. With increasing volumes of data, much effort has been devoted to finding the most suitable answer to an information need. However, in many domains, the question whether a...
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semant...
Extracting knowledge from unstructured text is a long-standing goal of NLP. Although learning approaches to many of its subtasks have been developed (e.g., parsing, taxonomy induc...
The key limiting factor in graphical model inference and learning is the complexity of the partition function. We thus ask the question: what are the most general conditions under...