Adaptive filtering of news is an area of information retrieval gaining substantial interest as services become more available on the Internet. This paper reports on a number of ex...
An experimental adaptive filtering system, built on the Okapi search engine, is described. In addition to the regular text retrieval functions, the system requires a complex set o...
Grammatical relationships are an important level of natural language processing. We present a trainable approach to find these relationships through transformation sequences and-e...
This paper presents a method for the automatic discovery of MANNER relations from text. An extended definition of MANNER is proposed, including restrictions on the sorts of concep...
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...