In Knowledge Management, variations in information expressions have proven a real challenge. In particular, classical semantic relations (e.g. synonymy) do not connect words with ...
Within the EU-funded COMPANIONS project, we are working to evaluate new collaborative conversational models of dialogue. Such an evaluation requires us to benchmark approaches to ...
Nick Webb, David Benyon, Jay Bradley, Preben Hanse...
This paper describes a language-independent, scalable system for both challenges of crossdocument co-reference: name variation and entity disambiguation. We provide system results...
The wide acceptance of object-oriented environments and proposals has renewed interest in all the class inheritance related issues; in particular its implementation in distributed...
Giuliano Armano, Antonio Corradi, Letizia Leonardi...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) track. Our work involved two aspects: finding good methods for Chinese IR, and findin...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun...