The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...