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Semantic web is the next generation web, which concerns the meaning of web documents It has the immense power to pull out the most relevant information from the web pages, which is also meaningful to any user, using software agents. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay , Chandrima Chakrabarti , Sounak Chakravorty

Comparing document semantics is one of the toughest tasks in both Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. To date, on one hand, the tools for this task are still rare. On the other hand, most relevant methods are devised from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yuqi Kong , Fanchao Meng , Benjamin Carterette

The relevance between a query and a document in search can be represented as matching degree between the two objects. Latent space models have been proven to be effective for the task, which are often trained with click-through data. One…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Shuxin Wang , Xin Jiang , Hang Li , Jun Xu , Bin Wang

The measurement of phrasal semantic relatedness is an important metric for many natural language processing applications. In this paper, we present three approaches for measuring phrasal semantics, one based on a semantic network model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Reda Siblini , Leila Kosseim

Sentence similarity is considered the basis of many natural language tasks such as information retrieval, question answering and text summarization. The semantic meaning between compared text fragments is based on the words semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Issa Atoum , Ahmed Otoom , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

The importance of recommender systems on the web has grown, especially in the movie industry, with a vast selection of options to watch. To assist users in traversing available items and finding relevant results, recommender systems analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ali Fallahi , Azam Bastanfard , Amineh Amini , Hadi Saboohi

Semantic textual similarity (STS) systems are designed to encode and evaluate the semantic similarity between words, phrases, sentences, and documents. One method for assessing the quality or authenticity of semantic information encoded in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Kimberly Glasgow , Matthew Roos , Amy Haufler , Mark Chevillet , Michael Wolmetz

Semantic annotations have to satisfy quality constraints to be useful for digital libraries, which is particularly challenging on large and diverse datasets. Confidence scores of multi-label classification methods typically refer only to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Martin Toepfer , Christin Seifert

Recent work has attempted to characterize the structure of semantic memory and the search algorithms which, together, best approximate human patterns of search revealed in a semantic fluency task. There are a number of models that seek to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Filip Miscevic , Aida Nematzadeh , Suzanne Stevenson

Previous work suggests that performance of cross-lingual information retrieval correlates highly with the quality of Machine Translation. However, there may be a threshold beyond which improving query translation quality yields little or no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bryan Zhang , Amita Misra

Traditional search methods primarily depend on string matches, while semantic search targets concept-based matches by recognizing underlying intents and contextual meanings of search terms. Semantic search is particularly beneficial for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Phillip Schneider , Florian Matthes

Despite the significant advancements in keyphrase extraction and keyphrase generation methods, the predominant approach for evaluation mainly relies on exact matching with human references. This scheme fails to recognize systems that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Di Wu , Da Yin , Kai-Wei Chang

Applications such as textual entailment, plagiarism detection or document clustering rely on the notion of semantic similarity, and are usually approached with dimension reduction techniques like LDA or with embedding-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ahmed Sabir , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Lluís Padró

Existing search engines use keyword matching or tf-idf based matching to map the query to the web-documents and rank them. They also consider other factors such as page rank, hubs-and-authority scores, knowledge graphs to make the results…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Manish Patel

We introduce KPI-Check, a novel system that automatically identifies and cross-checks semantically equivalent key performance indicators (KPIs), e.g. "revenue" or "total costs", in real-world German financial reports. It combines a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Lars Hillebrand , Tobias Deußer , Tim Dilmaghani , Bernd Kliem , Rüdiger Loitz , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

Currently, the quality of a search engine is often determined using so-called topical relevance, i.e., the match between the user intent (expressed as a query) and the content of the document. In this work we want to draw attention to two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Aleksandr Chuklin , Maarten de Rijke

Geo-textual objects, i.e., objects with both spatial and textual attributes, such as points-of-interest or web documents with location tags, are prevalent and fuel a range of location-based services. Existing spatial keyword querying…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zesong Zhang , Jianzhong Qi , Xin Cao , Christian S. Jensen

Deep Semantic Matching is a crucial component in various natural language processing applications such as question and answering (QA), where an input query is compared to each candidate question in a QA corpus in terms of relevance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Changyu Miao , Zhen Cao , Yik-Cheung Tam

Today's conventional search engines hardly do provide the essential content relevant to the user's search query. This is because the context and semantics of the request made by the user is not analyzed to the full extent. So here the need…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Swathi Rajasurya , Tamizhamudhu Muralidharan , Sandhiya Devi , S. Swamynathan

Ontology matching is the process of automatically determining the semantic equivalences between the concepts of two ontologies. Most ontology matching algorithms are based on two types of strategies: terminology-based strategies, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Shangpu Jiang , Daniel Lowd , Dejing Dou