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CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The University of Amsterdam's Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2007
We describe a new version of our question answering system, which was applied to the questions of the 2007 CLEF Question Answering Dutch monolingual task. This year, we made three ...
Valentin Jijkoun, Katja Hofmann, David Ahn, Mahboo...
ERCIMDL
2007
Springer
87views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2007»
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Thesaurus-Based Feedback to Support Mixed Search and Browsing Environments
We propose and evaluate a query expansion mechanism that supports searching and browsing in collections of annotated documents. Based on generative language models, our feedback me...
Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke
GREC
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A System to Segment Text and Symbols from Color Maps
Automatic separation of text and symbols from graphics in document image is one of the fundamental aims in graphics recognition. In maps, separation of text and symbols from graphi...
Partha Pratim Roy, Eduard Vazquez, Josep Llad&oacu...
VLDB
2007
ACM
132views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically
As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard “page view,” current search engines are becoming increasingly inadequate for a wide range of query tasks....
Tao Cheng, Xifeng Yan, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
W2GIS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves