This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...
This study explores the benefits of integrating knowledge representations in prior art patent retrieval. Key to the introduced approach is the utilization of human judgment availa...
Erik Graf, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas, Keith va...
We present a browser-extending Semantic Web extraction system that maps HTML documents to tables and, where possible, to rules. First, the basic data extractor ViPER distills and ...
The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
Recent work in supervised learning of term-based retrieval models has shown significantly improved accuracy can often be achieved via better model estimation [2, 10, 11, 17]. In ...