We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
The research field of "extracting knowledge bases from text collections" seems to be mature: its target and its working hypotheses are clear. In this paper we propose a ...
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...
Common sense knowledge can be efficiently collected from non-experts over the web in a similar fashion to the Open Mind family of distributed knowledge capture projects. We descri...
In this paper, we present a new approach to the problem of simultaneously localizing a group of mobile robots capable of sensing one another. Each of the robots collects sensor dat...