Internet user forums have been proven to be effective not just as a community meeting place but also as a supporting tool for various business products. Traditional forums are desi...
This paper compares several indexing methods for person names extracted from text, developed for an information retrieval system with requirements for fast approximate matching of...
Many information retrieval systems use the inverted file as indexing structure. The inverted file, however, is not suited to supporting incremental updates when new documents are ...
In TREC 2003, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participate in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval ta...
One of the issues of Artificial Intelligence is the transfer of the knowledge conveyed by Natural Language into formalisms that a computer can interpret. In the Natural Language P...