Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
Abstract. One major goal of text mining is to provide automatic methods to help humans grasp the key ideas in ever-increasing text corpora. To this effect, we propose a statistica...
The majority of text retrieval and mining techniques are still based on exact feature (e.g. words) matching and unable to incorporate text semantics. Many researchers believe that...
Abstract. Humans can associate vision and language modalities and thus generate mental imagery, i.e. visual images, from linguistic input in an environment of unlimited inflowing i...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...