Hercule Poirot Investigates

Ontology-driven Information Retrieval in FF-Poirot

This paper proposes a new approach for supporting domain information retrieval and information extraction on the web, using an original query expansion technique supported by an ad-hoc ontology focused on a specific domain of interest. The system has been built and tested in the framework of the FF-Poirot project, for supporting fine-grain retrieval from the Internet aiming at detecting financi...

NIEHS investigates Arctic health issues.

Pollution Issues, both issued in 1997, which detailed the unique environmental and health problems facing the Arctic's ecology and populations [see EHP 106:A64-A69 (1998)]. This past May, health and environmental officials, research scientists, medical providers, leaders of indigenous communities, and concerned Arctic citizens met in Anchorage, Alaska, to explore these issues at the Internation...

POIROT - Integrated Learning of Web Service Procedures

POIROT is an integration framework for combining machine learning mechanisms to learn hierarchical models of web services procedures from a single or very small set of demonstration examples. The system is organized around a shared representation language for communications with a central hypothesis blackboard. Component learning systems share semantic representations of their hypotheses (gener...

Using Target Costing to Investigates Competitive Price

This paper has presented research in progress concerning the contribution of target costing approach to achievement competitive price in the Iraqi firm. The title of the paper is one of the subjects that get large concerns in the finance and business world in the present time. That is because many competitive firms have appeared in the regional and global markets and the rapid changes that cove...

WHO investigates mysterious outbreak in South Sudan.