Abstract. The extensible markup language XML has become the de facto standard for information representation and interchange on the Internet. XML parsing is a core operation perfor...
Distributions of the senses of words are often highly skewed. This fact is exploited by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems which back off to the predominant (most frequent) s...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Previous information extraction (IE) systems are typically organized as a pipeline architecture of separated stages which make independent local decisions. When the data grows bey...
Qi Li, Sam Anzaroot, Wen-Pin Lin, Xiang Li, Heng J...