Extracting semantic relations among entities is an important first step in various tasks in Web mining and natural language processing such as information extraction, relation de...
Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...
Hearing people argue opposing sides of an issue can be a useful way to understand the topic; however, these debates or conversations often don't exist. Unfortunately, generat...
Nathan D. Nichols, Lisa M. Gandy, Kristian J. Hamm...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...