The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
Information retrieval methods are frequently used for indexing and retrieving spoken documents, and more recently have been proposed for voice-search amongst a pre-defined set of ...
Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Jasha Droppo, Alex...
We propose and evaluate a query expansion mechanism that supports searching and browsing in collections of annotated documents. Based on generative language models, our feedback me...
Abstract. The widespread adoption of XML necessitates structureaware systems that can effectively retrieve information from XML document collections. This paper reports on the par...
Jovan Pehcevski, James A. Thom, Seyed M. M. Tahagh...
— One of the critical issues in search engines is the size of search indexes: as the number of documents handled by an engine increases, the search must preserve its efficiency,...