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IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study
The KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an unsupervised, doma...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Distinguishing Answers in Conceptual Graph Knowledge Bases
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
Nicolas Moreau, Michel Leclère, Madalina Cr...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the classification of newsgroup messages through social network analysis
Newsgroup participants interact with their communities through conversation threads. They may respond to a message to answer a question, debate a topic, support or disagree with a...
Blaz Fortuna, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Mil...