The following report summarizes the highlights of the first workshop on exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval (ESAIR'08). The workshop format included pape...
This paper investigates the detection of named entity (NE) patterns by comparing the results of NE patterns resulting from a user analysis and a system analysis. Findings revealed ...
Abstract. We implemented a baseline approach to why-question answering based on paragraph retrieval. Our implementation incorporates the QAP ranking algorithm with addition of a nu...