We present a method for extracting selectional preferences of verbs from unannotated text. These selectional preferences are linked to an ontology (e.g. the hypernym relations foun...
In TREC 2004, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participates in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval t...
We describe cross language retrieval experiments using Amharic queries and English language document collection from our participation in the bilingual ad hoc track at the CLEF 20...
Toponym Disambiguation, i.e. the task of assigning to place name their correct reference in the world, is getting more attention from many researchers. Many methods have been prop...
This paper explores the possibility to exploit text on the world wide web in order to enrich the concepts in existing ontologies. First, a method to retrieve documents from the WWW...
Eneko Agirre, Olatz Ansa, Eduard H. Hovy, David Ma...