We devise a method for automatically detecting treatment relationships using lexico-syntactic patterns and its application to medical-oriented patent retrieval. This process for d...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
In our research on superimposed information management, we have developed applications where information elements in the superimposed layer serve to annotate, comment, restructure...
Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois M. L. Delcambr...
This paper describes the Knowledge Base multimedia retrieval system for the TRECVID 2008 evaluation. Our focus this year is on query analysis and the creation of a topic knowledge...
We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...