We all encounter many documents on a daily basis that we do not have time to process in their entirety. Nevertheless, we lack good tools to rapidly skim and identify key informati...
Perspective distortion always occurs while scanning thick, bound documents. This distortion mainly causes two sources of degradation for the scanned grayscale image ? i) shade alo...
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
The Online Database of Interlinear Text (ODIN)1 is a database of interlinear text "snippets", harvested mostly from scholarly documents posted to the Web. Although large...
Objectives: We present the summarization system in the PERSIVAL medical digital library. Although we discuss the context of our summarization research within the PERSIVAL platform...
Noemie Elhadad, Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans, Ka...