Carrying out experiments in Information Retrieval is a heavy activity requiring fast tools to treat collections of significant size, and at the same time flexible tools to leave...
Abstract. Geographic named entities can be classified into many subtypes that are useful for applications such as information extraction and question answering. In this paper, we ...
Abstract. Cross-lingual event tracking from a very large number of information sources (thousands of Web sites, for example) is an open challenge. In this paper we investigate effe...
Abstract. Automatic transliteration of foreign names is basically regarded as a diminutive clone of the machine translation (MT) problem. It thus follows IBM’s conventional MT mo...
Oversubscribed scheduling problems require removing tasks when enough resources are not available. Prior AI approaches have mostly been constructive or repairbased heuristic searc...
Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...