Abstract: Democratic societies throughout the world, it appears, are facing a new type of threat dubbed "asymmetric threat." In this new threat environment the world gove...
In TREC 2004, IRIT modified important features of the strategy that was developed for TREC 2003. Changes include tuning parameter values, topic expansion and exploitation of sente...
Nowadays, in a hotly competitive environment, companies are continuously trying to provide products and/or services to customers faster, cheaper, and better than the competitors d...
Research on Question Answering has produced an arsenal of useful techniques for detecting answers that are explicitly present in the text of a collection of documents. To move bey...
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi...
We present a method for constructing, maintaining and consulting a database of proper nouns. We describe noun phrases composed of a proper noun and/or a description of a human occ...