Statistical measures of word similarity have application in many areas of natural language processing, such as language modeling and information retrieval. We report a comparative...
In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure to compute the pairwise similarity of text-based documents based on suffix tree document model. By applying the new suffix tree ...
The importance of named entities in information retrieval and knowledge management has recently brought interest in characterizing semantic relationships between entities. In this...
Rapid and inexpensive techniques for automatic transcription of speech have the potential to dramatically expand the types of content to which information retrieval techniques can...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...