For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
This paper describes a probabilistic answer selection framework for question answering. In contrast with previous work using individual resources such as ontologies and the Web to...
Abstract Recent progress in mobile broadband communication and semantic web technology is enabling innovative internet services that provide advanced personalization and localizati...
A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...
The current web is a web of linked pages. Frustrated users search for facts by guessing which keywords or keyword phrases might lead them to pages where they can find facts. Can w...