We investigates language models for informational and navigational web search. Retrieval on the web is a task that differs substantially from ordinary ad hoc retrieval. We perfor...
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
As in CLEF 2003, Berkeley experimented with the CLEF Russian Izvestia document collection with monolingual and bilingual runs for the Russian collection. For CLEF 2004 we also expe...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at...
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Timot...