Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
Abstract. For document-centric work, meta-information in form of annotations has proven useful to enhance search and other retrieval tasks. The Mymory project1 uses a web-based wor...
Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Ludger van Elst, Georg...
Abstract. Implicit acquisition of user preferences makes log-based collaborative filtering favorable in practice to accomplish recommendations. In this paper, we follow a formal ap...
Jun Wang, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders
The PISAB Question Answering system is based on a combination of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval techniques. Knowledge extracted from documents is modeled as a se...
Hierarchical taxonomies are used to organize and retrieve information in many domains, especially those dealing with large and rapidly growing amounts of information. In many of t...