Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
: This paper presents the results of our team in the Genomics and Blog tracks in TREC 2007. We used the language model implementation provided by Indri for both tracks. For the BLO...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Ying Sun, Jianqiang Wang, Hongfang...
Query segmentation is the process of taking a user’s search-engine query and dividing the tokens into individual phrases or semantic units. Identification of these query segmen...
Query performance predictors are commonly evaluated by reporting correlation coefficients to denote how well the methods perform at predicting the retrieval performance of a set of...
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...