The effects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speec...
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Ka...
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerdi...
This paper describes the development of a structured document collection containing user-generated text and numerical metadata for exploring the exploitation of metadata in inform...
Walid Magdy, Jinming Min, Johannes Leveling, Garet...
Location-aware advertising is widely touted as the “killer-app” for mobile commerce to flourish. With the imminent rollout of third-generation mobile networks, advances in mul...
Query expansion terms are often used to enhance original query formulations in document retrieval. Such terms are usually selected from the entire documents or from windows or pas...