2008 was the fifth year for the medical image retrieval task of ImageCLEF, one of the most popular tracks within CLEF. Participation continued to increase in 2008. A total of 15 g...
Background: Keyword searching through PubMed and other systems is the standard means of retrieving information from Medline. However, ad-hoc retrieval systems do not meet all of t...
Graham L. Poulter, Daniel L. Rubin, Russ B. Altman...
Usually a meaningful web topic has tens of thousands of comments, especially the hot topics. It is valuable if we congregate the comments into clusters and find out the mainstrea...
Multi-Document Summarization deals with computing a summary for a set of related articles such that they give the user a general view about the events. One of the objectives is th...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...