The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
Crime reporting needs to be possible 24/7. Although 911 and tip-lines are the most publicized reporting mechanisms, several other options exist, ranging from inperson reporting to...
Music theme annotations would be really beneficial for supporting retrieval, but are often neglected by users while annotating. Thus, in order to support users in tagging and to f...
The paper presents methods of retrieving blog posts containing opinions about an entity expressed in the query. The methods use a lexicon of subjective words and phrases compiled ...
Work on the production of texts in English describing instances of a particular event type from multiple news sources will be described. A system has been developed which extracts...
James R. Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salga...