Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
In this paper MULTITALE, a system for the semantic tagging of medical neurosurgical texts and for the semi-automatic expansion of the medical lexicon, will be presented. Given the...
Most existing web video search engines index videos by file names, URLs, and surrounding texts. These types of video roughly describe the whole video in an abstract level without ...
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...