Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp

Seoul National University

Yeo-Chan Yoon

Jeong Mu Heo

Myung-Gil Jang

Hyun-Ki Kim

Soo-Jong Lim

Mi-Ran Choi

Hyo-Jung Oh

Kyoung-Ro Yoon

Chung-hee Lee

Hee-Cheol Seo

Sang-Kyu Park

Chang-Ki Lee

Jong-Wan Park

Yi-Gyu Hwang

Sung-Chul Hohng

Yong-Jin Bae

Yoon-Jae Choi

Dai-Sik Kim

Christoph Lienau

Yo-Han Jo

Victor Malyarchuck

Pum-Mo Ryu

Han-Youl Ryu

Kyeong-Hwa Yoo

The present invention is to provide an apparatus for searching information based on Wikipedia's contents comprising: a document converting part extracting fulltext documents, section title documents, info-box documents, category documents and definition statement documents from Wikipedia original documents and generating at least one of Wikipedia documents for questions and answers; a document indexing part analyzing the Wikipedia document for questions and answers, extracting POS-based index terms from the Wikipedia document for questions and answers, and generating a Wikipedia document index for questions and answers; a question analyzing part receiving a natural language question, analyzing a question pattern, an answer pattern and a question focus from the natural language question, and extracting document search keywords; a document searching part performing document search by using the document search keywords from the Wikipedia document index for questions and answers and generating document search result from each Wikipedia document index for questions and answers; an answer extracting part extracting first answers by using information about the question pattern, the answer pattern and the question focus from the document search result; and an answer integrating part integrating and prioritizing the first answer and generating a second answer.

Apparatus and method for searching information based on Wikipedia's contents

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for expressing a query for searching multimedia data. The apparatus and method of the present invention expresses diverse query types in MPEG-7 query formats and uses field types to reuse a designated region. The apparatus for expressing a query inputted from a user for multimedia data search includes: an input means for receiving a query for multimedia data search from a user; and a query expression means for expressing the input query in a field type, wherein the field type includes at least one among identifier information indicating identification (ID) information of a field presenting a search condition included in the input query; type information indicating data type information of the field; and reference information indicating identifier information of another field for reference. The present invention is applied to MPEG-7 query formats.

Apparatus and method for a query express

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for retrieving multimedia contents represented in a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) 7 by transforming a user query into an MPEG-7 query format. The method for retrieving multimedia contents includes: representing a user query by using an indicator indicating a specific region of a Moving Picture Experts Group 7 (MPEG-7) document and a reference for referring to the indicator; analyzing a meaning of the user query represented by using the indicator and the reference to thereby produce an analysis result; and retrieving multimedia contents according to the analysis result. The present research can satisfy more than two retrieval conditions within the same structure in an MPEG-7 query format and it can also clearly represent that two different MPEG-7 documents are referred to. Since the meaning of a user query is analyzed accurately during retrieval process, it is possible to precisely retrieve multimedia contents.

Method and apparatus for retrieving multimedia contents

Provides is an apparatus for question answering based on answer trustworthiness including: an answer indexer that indexes documents of which document trustworthiness satisfying a threshold value among documents included in a document collection and stores it in a knowledge Bases; an answer candidate extractor that extracts answer candidate documents for a user's question from the knowledge Bases; an answer source trustworthiness measurement unit; an answer extraction strategy trustworthiness measurement unit; and a trustworthiness integrator that generates an answer candidate trustworthiness list by ranking the answer candidate documents on the basis of the document trustworthiness, the source trustworthiness, and the extraction strategy trustworthiness of the answer candidate documents.

Apparatus for question answering based on answer trustworthiness and method thereof

Disclosed is a surface plasmon optic device that has a periodic array of apertures in a dielectric substrate and a metal film formed on the dielectric substrate and emits light from metal-air interface. The surface plasmon optic device includes a surface plasmon generating apparatus, a surface plasmon detecting apparatus, a surface plasmon controlling apparatus, an etching apparatus, etc. if a metal diffraction grating is disposed on the metal film having a well-defined interface, propagation of the surface plasmon can be efficiently reflected, divided and controlled. Further, radiating surface plasmon having a half period of a lattice constant formed at air-metal () can be preserved at a distance of at least a few micron.

Surface plasmon optic devices and radiating surface plasmon sources for photolithography

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