We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Scalable information retrieval systems are crucial to meeting the growing volumes of data. We describe work done to facilitate scalability by reducing duplication, providing integ...
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...
This paper presents a retrospective data analysis on how 75 clinicians searched for and accessed biomedical literature from an online information retrieval system to answer six cl...
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...