Abstract. Poor quality data may be detected and corrected by performing various quality assurance activities that rely on techniques with different efficacy and cost. In this pape...
Lei Jiang, Daniele Barone, Alexander Borgida, John...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
In this paper we report the experiments for the CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD task, both for the monolingual (English) and the bilingual (Spanish to English) subtasks. Our main experimenta...
Document Transformation techniques have been studied for decades. In this paper, a new approach for a significant improvement is presented based on using a new query expansion met...
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...