We propose three heuristics to determine the country of origin of a person or institution via text-based IE from the Web. We evaluate all methods on a collection of music artists ...
Markus Schedl, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitze...
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
The Semantic Web consists of many RDF graphs nameable by URIs. This paper extends the syntax and semantics of RDF to cover such Named Graphs. This enables RDF statements that desc...
Jeremy J. Carroll, Christian Bizer, Patrick J. Hay...
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
We all encounter many documents on a daily basis that we do not have time to process in their entirety. Nevertheless, we lack good tools to rapidly skim and identify key informati...