This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system DIOGENE. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. DI...
There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (que...
: Our personal knowledge plays a vital role in our daily intellectual work. This paper proposes a method for acquiring and utilizing our personal knowledge in computer systems. We ...
As more information becomes available on the World Wide Web, it has become an acute problem to provide effective search tools for information access. Previous generations of search...
Recently, there has been growing interest in random sampling from online hidden databases. These databases reside behind form-like web interfaces which allow users to execute sear...