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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Building a web thesaurus from web link structure
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu,...
PKDD
2009
Springer
135views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Syntactic Structural Kernels for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
A core problem in data mining is to retrieve data in a easy and human friendly way. Automatically translating natural language questions into SQL queries would allow for the design...
Alessandra Giordani, Alessandro Moschitti
CORR
1998
Springer
98views Education» more  CORR 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Stratified Sampling to Assess Corpus Utility
This paper describes a method for asking statistical questions about a large text corpus. We exemplify the method by addressing the question, "What percentage of Federal Regi...
Judith Hochberg, Clint Scovel, Timothy Thomas, Sam...
BMCBI
2006
127views more  BMCBI 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Exploring supervised and unsupervised methods to detect topics in biomedical text
Background: Topic detection is a task that automatically identifies topics (e.g., "biochemistry" and "protein structure") in scientific articles based on infor...
Minsuk Lee, Weiqing Wang, Hong Yu
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua