This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
In a competitive health-care market, hospitals have to focus on ways to streamline their processes in order to deliver high quality care while at the same time reducing costs. To a...
Ronny Mans, Helen Schonenberg, Giorgio Leonardi, S...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
We study the problem of predicting the popularity of items in a dynamic environment in which authors post continuously new items and provide feedback on existing items. This proble...
: Our personal knowledge plays a vital role in our daily intellectual work. This paper proposes a method for acquiring and utilizing our personal knowledge in computer systems. We ...