: Up to now, the results of applying sophisticated NL techniques to IR have been mostly disappointing. Our research aims at investigating in detail the role of syntactic analysis i...
In my thesis I will address the problem of interoperation between information spaces on the web. We explain how this problem is different to traditional database integration scenar...
We present an O(m + n)-time algorithm that tests if a given directed graph is 2-vertex connected, where m is the number of arcs and n is the number of vertices. Based on this resul...
The University of Maryland Researchers participated in both the Arabic-English Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) and Video tracks of TREC-10. In the CLIR track, our goal...
Kareem Darwish, David S. Doermann, Ryan C. Jones, ...
This paper describes an effort to rapidly develop language resources and component technology to support searching Cebuano news stories using English queries. Results from the fi...
Douglas W. Oard, David S. Doermann, Bonnie J. Dorr...