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RIAO
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval
Information Retrieval Systems aim at retrieving relevant documents according to the information needs which users express. Most Information Retrieval Systems focus on passage retr...
Taoufiq Dkaki, Josiane Mothe
WSDM
2010
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Measuring the Reusability of Test Collections
While test collection construction is a time-consuming and expensive process, the true cost is amortized by reusing the collection over hundreds or thousands of experiments. Some ...
Ben Carterette, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifov...
ICTAI
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Query Expansion and Query Reduction in Document Retrieval
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti, Yingying Wen
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Query Expansion Based on Divergence
In this paper we are mainly concerned with discussion of a formal model, based on the basic concept of divergence from information theory, for automatic query expansion. The basic...
D. Cai, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Joemon M. Jose
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...
Rawia Awadallah, Andreas Rauber