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ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren
AAAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
AURA: Enabling Subject Matter Experts to Construct Declarative Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks
The long-term goal of Project Halo is to build an application called Digital Aristotle that can answer questions on a variety of science topics and provide user and domain appropr...
Ken Barker, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter...
ALT
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Average-Case Active Learning with Costs
Abstract. We analyze the expected cost of a greedy active learning algorithm. Our analysis extends previous work to a more general setting in which different queries have differe...
Andrew Guillory, Jeff A. Bilmes
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Information Retrieval Baselines for the ResPubliQA Task
This paper describes the baselines proposed for the ResPubliQA 2009 task. These baselines are purely based on information retrieval techniques. The selection of an adequate retrie...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Guillermo Ga...
KCAP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Multimodal knowledge capture from text and diagrams
Many information sources use multiple modalities, such as textbooks, which contain both text and diagrams. Each captures information that is hard to express in the other, and evid...
Kate Lockwood, Kenneth D. Forbus