The Web so far has been incredibly successful at delivering information to human users. So successful actually, that there is now an urgent need to go beyond a browsing human and ...
Background: High-throughput molecular biology provides new data at an incredible rate, so that the increase in the size of biological databanks is enormous and very rapid. This sc...
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...
Research on Question Answering is focused mainly on classifying the question type and finding the answer. Presenting the answer in a way that suits the user's needs has recei...
This paper presents a method for cross-language question answering. The method combines multiple query translations in order to improve the answering precision. The combination of ...