Proposals for text classification and information retrieval have been recently presented making use of the WordNet ontology. Generally, this methodology requires statistical induc...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
In a multi-language Information Retrieval setting, the knowledge about the language of a user query is important for further processing. Hence, we compare the performance of some t...
This paper reports on the underlying IR problems encountered when indexing and searching with the Bulgarian language. For this language we propose a general light stemmer and demon...
The increasing flow of information between languages has led to a rise in the frequency of non-native or loan words, where terms of one language appear transliterated in another. ...
Abdusalam F. A. Nwesri, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Fa...