The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...
This paper presents a system that retrieves descriptive phrases of proper nouns from free text. Sentences holding the specified noun are ranked using a technique based on pattern ...
This paper describes our participation in the GeoCLEF monolingual English task of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the retr...
We propose an efficient dialogue management for an information navigation system based on a document knowledge base with a spoken dialogue interface. In order to perform robustly ...
Almost any information you might want is becoming available on-line. The problem is how to find what you need. One strategy to improve access to existing information sources, is i...