Web search engines discover indexable documents by recursively ‘crawling’ from a seed URL. Their rankings take into account link popularity. While this works well, it introduc...
Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayan...
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
Access to real environments is often conditioned by a number of issues, including the skills of the user (i.e. affected by aging, physical and psychological deficiencies, etc.) an...
This paper presents our bilingual question-answering system MUSCLEF. We underline the difficulties encountered when shifting from a mono to a cross-lingual system, then we focus o...
In this paper, we present Concept Chain Queries (CCQ), a special case of text mining in document collections focusing on detecting links between two topics across text documents. ...