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2001
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
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...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
NCA
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
On Scalable Information Retrieval Systems
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...
Ophir Frieder, David A. Grossman, Abdur Chowdhury
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CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
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...
Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Carlos G. F...
MEDINFO
2007
137views Healthcare» more  MEDINFO 2007»
15 years 7 months ago
How do Clinicians Search For and Access Biomedical Literature to Answer Clinical Questions?
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...
Annie Y. S. Lau, Enrico W. Coiera
NAACL
2003
15 years 7 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
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...
Ellen M. Voorhees