One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Connectivity analysis methodology is suitable to find representative symptoms of a disease. This methodology describes connections between symptoms in particular way and then choos...
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, G...
This paper discusses a technique to structure utterance records of the meetings for requirements elicitation based on speech act theory. To elicit requirements to the system to be...
Traditionally, popular synonym acquisition methods are based on the distributional hypothesis, and a metric such as Jaccard coefficients is used to evaluate the similarity between...