This paper addresses the difficult problem of symbol spotting for graphic documents. We propose an approach where each graphic document is indexed as a text document by using the ...
A meta-search engine propagates user queries to its participant search engines following a server selection strategy. To facilitate server selection, the metasearch engine must ke...
The Spoken Document Processing Working Group, which is part of the special interest group of spoken language processing of the Information Processing Society of Japan, is developi...
In this paper we propose a completely unsupervised method for open-domain entity extraction and clustering over query logs. The underlying hypothesis is that classes defined by mi...
In this paper we report on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a question-answering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents...
Neill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon M. Jose, Ian ...