This paper describes a novel approach to named entity (NE) tagging on degraded documents. NE tagging is the process of identifying salient text strings in unstructured text, corre...
Recently direct optimization of information retrieval (IR) measures becomes a new trend in learning to rank. Several methods have been proposed and the effectiveness of them has ...
The recent proliferation of crowd computing initiatives on the web calls for smarter methodologies and tools to annotate, query and explore repositories. There is the need for scal...
Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, ...
Due to the lexical gap between questions and answers, automatically detecting right answers becomes very challenging for community question-answering sites. In this paper, we prop...
Abstract-- Inspired by the great success of information retrieval (IR) style keyword search on the web, keyword search on XML has emerged recently. The difference between text data...