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EMNLP
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Positional Language Models for Clinical Information Retrieval
The PECO framework is a knowledge representation for formulating clinical questions. Queries are decomposed into four aspects, which are Patient-Problem (P), Exposure (E), Compari...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to rank with partially-labeled data
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?
Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
GLOBE
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Designing, Specifying and Querying Metadata for Virtual Data Integration Systems
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Gayathri Jayaraman
ACL
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Extraction and Approximation of Numerical Attributes from the Web
We present a novel framework for automated extraction and approximation of numerical object attributes such as height and weight from the Web. Given an object-attribute pair, we d...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport