Name ambiguity problem has raised urgent demands for efficient, high-quality named entity disambiguation methods. In recent years, the increasing availability of large-scale, rich...
A coherent and consistent understanding of corporate data is an important factor for effective management of diversified companies and implies a need for companywide unambiguous d...
Collaborative work environments for scientific knowledge have many applications in research as well as in education. Such systems already exist (e.g. Wikipedia and PlanetMath), b...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
We propose a new integrated approach based on Markov logic networks (MLNs), an effective combination of probabilistic graphical models and firstorder logic for statistical relatio...