The focus of this paper is a question answering system, where the answers are retrieved from a collection of textual documents. The system also includes automatic document summariz...
According to Thomas L. Friedman, the world has become “flat” with collaboration among individuals in most if not all aspects of life becoming reality. The Internet is the back...
Abstract. A key challenge in information retrieval is the use of contextual evidence within ad-hoc retrieval. Our contribution is particularly based on the belief that contextual r...
While participating in the HARD track our first question was, what an IR-application should look like that takes into account preference meta-data from the user, without the need ...
Enterprises develop procedures to address focuses in any case. However, procedures result often in sub-optimal solutions for any specific focus. As a consequence, each actor develo...