Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of nontextual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential for...
This paper describes in detail the combination of NLP methods applied to the treatment of logic forms in the topic processing and statistical methods applied to the search engine ...
Modeling text with topics is currently a popular research area in both Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (IR). Most of this research has focused on automatic methods thou...
Workflows are widely used for representing business processes, web services, scientific experiments, and activities in daily life, like recipes. There is an increasing need for peo...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...