Documents, especially long ones, may contain very diverse passages related to different topics. Passages Retrieval approaches have shown that, in most cases, there is a great pote...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
Abstract. This paper reports on experiments performed in the development of the QALL-ME system, a multilingual QA infrastructure capable of handling input requests both in written ...
Abstract. Computational Grids provide a widely distributed computing environment suitable for randomized SAT solving. This paper develops techniques for incorporating learning, kno...
An alternative way to tackle Information Retrieval, called Passage Retrieval, considers text fragments independently rather than assessing global relevance of documents. In such a ...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
Abstract. The paper addresses an important challenge for the automatic processing of English written text: understanding noun compounds’ semantics. Following Downing (1977) [1], ...