Question classification is very important for question answering. This paper presents our research work on automatic question classification through machine learning approaches. W...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
We present a scalable algorithm for the parallel computation of inverted files for large text collections. The algorithm takes into account an environment of a high bandwidth netw...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Joao Paulo Kitajima, Gon...
Cross-language retrieval systems use queries in one natural language to guide retrieval of documents that might be written in another. Acquisition and representation of translation...
Query expansion is an effective technique to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. Although hand-crafted lexical resources, such as WordNet, could provide more...