Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...
Temporal expressions, such as between 1992 and 2000, are frequent across many kinds of documents. Text retrieval, though, treats them as common terms, thus ignoring their inherent...
Irem Arikan, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Klaus Berberich
Etter Solutions Research Group participated in the TRECVID conference for the first time in 2007. We submitted five runs in the area of fully automatic search. Fully Automatic Sea...
The large amount of information now available on the Web can play a prominent role in building a cooperative intelligent distance learning environment. We propose a system to prov...
Mohammed Abdel Razek, Claude Frasson, Marc Kaltenb...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...