The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a traditional search engine, even if based on sophisticated document indexing algorithms, has diffi...
In this paper we report the experiments for the CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD task, both for the monolingual (English) and the bilingual (Spanish to English) subtasks. Our main experimenta...
Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
The rapid development of network technologies has made the web a huge information source with its own characteristics. In most cases, traditional database-based technologies are no...