A token is hidden in one out of n boxes following some known probability distribution and then all the boxes are locked. The goal of a searcher is to find the token in at most D n...
We present a study of the degree to which annotations overlap when several researchers read the same set of scientific articles. Our objective is to determine whether there is suf...
Automatic text chunking is a task which aims to recognize phrase structures in natural language text. It is the key technology of knowledge-based system where phrase structures pro...
This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system DIOGENE. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. DI...
Our work deals with schema or ontology matching and is driven by the following statements: (1) Most of works only consider intensional description of schemas; (2) They mostly use s...