In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Sequential pattern mining is an active field in the domain of knowledge discovery and has been widely studied for over a decade by data mining researchers. More and more, with the ...
This work aims at increasing the development productivity of the Geographic Information Systems through the MDA. We defined an UML extension which adds geographic information to th...
Japanese case markers, which indicate the grammatical relation of the complement NP to the predicate, often pose challenges to the generation of Japanese text, be it done by a for...
Component interoperability has become an important concern as companies migrate legacy systems, integrate COTS products, and assemble modules from disparate sources into a single ...