In this paper, we want to show which difficulties arise when automatically constructing a domain-independent knowledge base from the web. We show possible applications for such a k...
Recent work on organisational knowledge suggests that, in addition to cultivating the 'knowledge spiral', organisations need to focus on facilitating forms of 'know...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Background: The MEDLINE database contains over 12 million references to scientific literature, ut 3/4 of recent articles including an abstract of the publication. Retrieval of ent...
The potential benefit of integrating contextual information for recommendation has received much research attention recently, especially with the ever-increasing interest in mobil...
Yize Li, Jiazhong Nie, Yi Zhang, Bingqing Wang, Ba...