Passage retrieval consists in identifying short but informative runs of a long text, given a specific user query. We discuss the sources of evidence that help choosing likely high-...
Abstract. Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic In...
Context awareness and context modeling have raised their call for attention and importance quite recently in the world of contact centers for better customer services and relation...
Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...
Abstract. We present a dialogue system that enables the access in natural language to a web information retrieval system. We use a Web Semantic Language to model the knowledge conv...