Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
A highly skewed microdata contains some sensitive attribute values that occur far more frequently than others. Such data violates the "eligibility condition" assumed by ...
Yabo Xu, Ke Wang, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Raymond Chi-Win...
– The current approaches for linking information across sources, often called record linkage, require finding common attributes between the sources and comparing the records usin...
As many popular text genres such as blogs or news contain opinions by multiple sources and about multiple targets, finding the sources and targets of subjective expressions become...
Josef Ruppenhofer, Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wie...
We are currently developing MiniSTEx, a spatiotemporal annotation system to handle temporal and/or geospatial information directly and indirectly expressed in texts. In the end, t...