Our goal in participating in the TREC 2009 Entity Track was to study whether relation extraction techniques can help in improving accuracy of the entity finding task. Finding related entities is informational in nature ...

The deployment of Web 2.0 technologies has led to rapid growth of various opinions and reviews on the web, such as reviews on products and opinions about people. Such content can be very useful to help people find interesting ...

We present a novel graph-based summarization framework (Opinosis) that generates concise abstractive summaries of highly redundant opinions. Evaluation results on summarizing user reviews show that Opinosis summaries have ...

Vector Based Text Classification in the Question Answering field has long been explored. However, there has not been any attempt so far to take word senses into consideration in the development of the feature sets in the ...