In this paper, we describe a new paradigm for information retrieval in which the retrieval target is based on a model. Three types of models – linear, finite state, and knowledg...
Chung-Sheng Li, Yuan-Chi Chang, Lawrence D. Bergma...
This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as eviden...
The PECO framework is a knowledge representation for formulating clinical questions. Queries are decomposed into four aspects, which are Patient-Problem (P), Exposure (E), Compari...
Addressing queries interactively to a chain of two or more biological resources is an everyday task for many scientists, as they use in-silico methods to characterize a biological...
Jason E. Sew Hoy, Alan F. McCulloch, John R. McDon...
The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...