Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Given the experimental nature of information retrieval, progress critically depends on analyzing the errors made by existing retrieval approaches and understanding their limitatio...
Our Genomics experiments in this year mainly focus on improving the passage retrieval performance in the biomedical domain. We address this problem by constructing different inde...
This paper reports on work done for the Genomics Track at TREC 2004 by ConverSpeech LLC in conjunction with scientists at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), the model organi...
Colleen E. Crangle, Alex Zbyslaw, J. Michael Cherr...
The aim of latent semantic indexing (LSI) is to uncover the relationships between terms, hidden concepts, and documents. LSI uses the matrix factorization technique known as singu...