Summarization of text documents is increasingly important with the amount of data available on the Internet. The large majority of current approaches view documents as linear sequ...
Gazetteer services are an important component in a wide variety of systems, including geographic search engines and question answering systems. Unfortunately, the footprints provid...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
Search engines are powerful tools to find information on the Web. However, they commonly return a lot of irrelevant documents when the users’ queries are not specific enough. To...
We introduce the Multiple Relationship Similarity Spreading Algorithm (MRSSA) to enhance IR effectiveness. This method has similarity computed in an iterative “spreading” fash...
Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system which uses the information available on the Web as an additional resource when searching for answers. Other externa...