Large corpora are essential to modern methods of computational linguistics and natural language processing. In this paper, we describe an ongoing project whose aim is to build a l...
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
We developed a user interface that organizes Web search results into hierarchical categories. Text classification algorithms were used to automatically classify arbitrary search r...
Finding definitions in huge text collections is a challenging problem, not only because of the many ways in which definitions can be conveyed in natural language texts but also be...
Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift through the long ordered list of document “snippets” returned by the engines. The IR community has explored document cluste...