In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
Multimedia documents are increasingly used which involve to develop model to that kind of data. In this paper we present a multimedia model which combines textual and visual inform...
The paper reports the University of Waterloo participation in the opinion and polarity tasks of the Blog track. The proposed method uses a lexicon built from several linguistic re...
: We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's ILPS group in the blog track at TREC 2008. We mainly explored different ways of using external corpora to expa...
We extended language modeling approaches in information retrieval (IR) to combine collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF). Our approach is based on the anal...