When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
What kinds of lexical resources are helpful for extracting useful information from domain-specific documents? Although domain-specific documents contain much useful knowledge, it ...
We describe here a methodology to combine two different techniques for Semantic Relation Extraction from texts. On the one hand, generic lexicosyntactic patterns are applied to the...
Global and local adaptive thresholding techniques have been shown effective on particular types of documents. None produces consistently good results on all types of documents. In...
This paper describes our participation to the English Girt Task of CLEF 2005 Campaign. A method for conceptual indexing based on WordNet is used. Both documents and queries are map...