Within the larger area of automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Web, we introduce a method for extracting relevant attributes, or quantifiable properties, for various class...
In clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) the medical information is stored in a narrative way. A large part of this information occurs in a negated form. The detection of negation in...
This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
: In this paper we present an approach to embedding VoiceXML applications by an off-line compilation scheme. Our primary motivation is that VoiceXML is an established standard for ...
We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...