Query-oriented summarization aims at extracting an informative summary from a document collection for a given query. It is very useful to help users grasp the main information rel...
Various methods have been proposed for automatic synonym acquisition, as synonyms are one of the most fundamental lexical knowledge. Whereas many methods are based on contextual c...
Real world images are complex objects, difficult to describe but at the same time possessing a high degree of redundancy. A very recent study [1] on the statistical properties of n...
Comments left by readers on Web documents contain valuable information that can be utilized in different information retrieval tasks including document search, visualization, and ...
Background: Since Swanson proposed the Undiscovered Public Knowledge (UPK) model, there have been many approaches to uncover UPK by mining the biomedical literature. These earlier...