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...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been shown to be effective in recovering from synonymy and polysemy in text retrieval applications. However, since LSI ignores class labels of t...
Sutanu Chakraborti, Rahman Mukras, Robert Lothian,...
We describe our participation in both tasks in the 2003 TREC Genomics track. For the primary task we concentrated mainly upon query expansion and species-specific document search...
Miles Osborne, Mark Cuminskey, Gail Sinclair, Matt...
The Resource Description Framework [RDF] provides a basic model to describe relationships between objects. Ultimately, it is intended to permit the representation, combination and ...
Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...