In this paper we investigate the automatic generation and evaluation of sentential paraphrases. We describe a method for generating sentential paraphrases by using a large aligned...
We describe a utility evaluation to determine whether cross-document information extraction (IE) techniques measurably improve user performance in news summary writing. Two groups...
Heng Ji, Zheng Chen, Jonathan Feldman, Antonio Gon...
Knowledge harvesting enables the automated construction of large knowledge bases. In this work, we made a first attempt to harvest spatio-temporal knowledge from news archives to...
Yafang Wang, Bin Yang 0002, Spyros Zoupanos, Marc ...
Finding relevant information within the vast amount of information exchanged via feeds is difficult. Previous research into this problem has largely focused on recommending relev...
In this short paper we introduce Helios, a flexible and efficient open source meta-search engine. Helios currently runs on the top of 16 search engines (in Web, Books, News, and A...