In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
We present the software tool “Web Graph Analyzer”. This tool is designed to perform a comprehensive analysis of the Web Graph structure. By Web Graph we mean a graph whose ver...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Danil Nemirovsky, Natalia ...
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
This paper describes our participation at the GeoCLEF 2005 task. We detail the main software components of our Geo-IR system, its adaptation for the participation at GeoCLEF and d...
Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
The tagging problem in natural language processing is to find a way to label every word in a text as a particular part of speech, e.g., proper noun. An effective way of solving th...