We simulate different architectures of a distributed Information Retrieval system on a very large Web collection, in order to work out the optimal setting for a particular set of r...
This paper introduces a new approach to add fault-tolerance to a fulltext retrieval system. The weighted pattern morphing technique circumvents some of the disadvantages of the wid...
In the novelty task on sentence level, the amount of information used in similarity computation is the major challenging issue. A shallow NLP approach extracts noun and verb featu...
In this paper we describe an extractive method of creating very short summaries or gists that capture the essence of a news story using a linguistic technique called lexical chaini...
Nicola Stokes, Eamonn Newman, Joe Carthy, Alan F. ...
Web pages are often recognized by others through contexts. These contexts determine how linked pages influence and interact with each other. When differentiating such interactions,...