We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Ranking a number of retrieval systems according to their retrieval effectiveness without relying on costly relevance judgments was first explored by Soboroff et al [6]. Over th...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong,...
Radiologists disagree with each other over the characteristics and features of what constitutes a normal mammogram and the terminology to use in the associated radiology report. R...
Robert M. Patton, Thomas E. Potok, Barbara G. Beck...
Term-based representations of documents have found widespread use in information retrieval. However, one of the main shortcomings of such methods is that they largely disregard le...
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...