The Web N-gram Workshop was held on July 23, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland, in conjunction with the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. The workshop brought together leaders in inform...
Chengxiang Zhai, Kuansan Wang, David Yarowsky, Ste...
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Situational aspects are very helpful to decide relevance but they have often been left aside by Information Retrieval models. The standard logical approach to Information Retrieva...
Structured retrieval aims at exploiting the structural information of documents when searching for documents. Structured retrieval makes use of both content and structure of docum...
Saravadee Sae Tan, Tang Enya Kong, Gian Chand Sodh...