Abstract Information-extraction (IE) systems seek to distill semantic relations from
naturallanguage text, but most systems use supervised learning of relation-specific …

In recent years, a web phenomenon known as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
has produced large crowdsourced geographic data sets. OpenStreetMap (OSM), the leading …

Objectives Biomedical natural language processing tools are increasingly being applied for
broad-coverage information extraction—extracting medical information of all types in a …

ABSTRACT A great share of applications in modern information technology can benefit from
large coverage, machine accessible knowledge bases. However, the bigger part of todays …

Over the past decade, rapid advances in web technologies, coupled with innovative models
of spatial data collection and consumption, have generated a robust growth in geo …

Wikification is a method to automatically enrich a text with links to Wikipedia as a knowledge
base. One step in Wikification is detecting ambiguous mentions, and one other step is …

Informal language and the absence of a standard taxonomy for software technologies make
it difficult to reliably analyze technology trends on discussion forums and other on-line …

With the rapid growth of web services on the internet, web service discovery has become a
hot topic in services computing. Faced with the heterogeneous and unstructured service …

In this article, the authors present a novel approach for computing semantic relatedness and
conduct a large-scale study of it on Wikipedia. Unlike existing semantic analysis methods …

Wikipedia, a collaborative and user driven encyclopedia is considered to be the largest
content thesaurus on the web, expanding into a massive database housing a huge amount …