Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
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...
Structured document retrieval makes use of document components as the basis of the retrieval process, rather than complete documents. The inherent relationships between these comp...
Jane Reid, Mounia Lalmas, Karen Finesilver, Morten...
This paper describes a method of detecting Japanese Katakana variants from a large corpus. Katakana words, which are mainly used as loanwords, cause problems with information retr...
This work addresses the use of computational linguistic analysis techniques for conceptual graphs learning from unstructured texts. A technique including both content mining and i...