Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Abstract. A review is provided of some database and representation issues involved in the implementation of geographic information systems (GIS). The increasing popularity of web-b...
This paper reports on the pilot question answering track that was carried out within the CLEF initiative this year. The track was divided into monolingual and bilingual tasks: mono...
In this poster we present an approach to query answering over knowledge sources that makes use of different ontology management components within an application scenario of the BT...