Electronic written texts used in computermediated interactions (e-mails, blogs, chats, etc) present major deviations from the norm of the language. This paper presents an comparat...
Abstract. The concept of Ensemble Learning has been shown to increase predictive power over single base learners. Given the bias-variancecovariance decomposition, diversity is char...
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
- Most of the direct-cover Boolean minimization techniques use a four step cyclic algorithm. First, the algorithm chooses an On-minterm; second, it generates the set of prime impli...
In order to resolve multi-dimentional queries, we propose a conceptual indexing based on a medical meta thesaurus (UMLS). We study the impact of this indexing compared to a words-b...