Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
Abstract. Answer validation is an important component of any question answering system. In this paper we show how the formalism of prioritized fuzzy constraint satisfaction allows ...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
We describe an approach taken for automatically associating entries from an on-line encyclopedia with concepts in an ontology or a lexical semantic network. It has been tested with...
Maria Ruiz-Casado, Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castel...
In data integration systems there is a problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between source schemas and the target schema, and given that th...
This paper presents an approach for applying inductive logic programming to information extraction from HTML documents structured as unranked ordered trees. We consider information...
Abstract. The Internet witnesses the unprecedent boom of customerto-customer e-commerce. Most online auction providers use simple participation counts for reputation rating, thus e...
Mikolaj Morzy, Marek Wojciechowski, Maciej Zakrzew...
This paper explores the feasibility of a multilingual question answering approach based on the Web redundancy. The paper introduces a system prototype that combines a translation m...