Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Bilingual term lists are extensively used as a resource for dictionary-based Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), in which the goal is to find documents written in one na...
In the novelty task on sentence level, the amount of information used in similarity computation is the major challenging issue. A shallow NLP approach extracts noun and verb featu...
Without a well formulated and structured question, it can be very difficult and time consuming for physicians to identify appropriate resources and search for the best available ev...