Abstract. This paper presents a series of experiments investigating the effectiveness of query-independent features extracted from retrieved objects to predict relevancy. Features...
For compounding languages, a great part of the topical semantics is conveyed via nominal compounds. Various applications of natural language processing can profit from explicit ac...
The rapid growth of the Internet means that more information is available than ever before. Multilingual multi-document summarisation offers a way to access this information even ...
This paper describes an empirical study of the "Information Synthesis" task, defined as the process of (given a complex information need) extracting, organizing and inte...
A good dictionary contains not only many entries and a lot of information concerning each one of them, but also adequate means to reveal the stored information. Information access...