In order to answer factoid questions, the Webclopedia QA system employs a range of knowledge resources. These include a QA Typology with answer patterns, WordNet, information abou...
Eduard H. Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepa...
One of the biggest effects of Web 2.0 and the evolution of the social Web is the commoditization of data. The emergence of applications such as Facebook and Twitter, have lowered t...
From a user's perspective, hypertext links on the web form a directed graph between distinct information sources. We investigate the effects of discovering "backlinks&qu...
Soumen Chakrabarti, David Gibson, Kevin S. McCurle...
Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) has emerged as a useful technique for multiagent coordination. While previous DCOP work focuses on optimizing a single team objective, i...