In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Providing accurate personalized information services to the users requires knowing their interests and needs, as defined by their User Models (UMs). Since the quality of the person...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dan Goldwasser, Tsvi Kuflik, Fra...
The reasoning tasks that can be performed with semantic web service descriptions depend on the quality of the domain ontologies used to create these descriptions. However, buildin...
Marta Sabou, Chris Wroe, Carole A. Goble, Gilad Mi...
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
As the amount of information on the Web grows, the ability to retrieve relevant information quickly and easily is necessary. The combination of ample news sources on the Web, litt...
Krysta Marie Svore, Lucy Vanderwende, Christopher ...