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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most popular information sources on the Web. The free encyclopedia is densely linked. The link structure in Wikipedia differs from the Web at large: interna...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Block-based web search
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Combining fields in known-item email search
Emails are examples of structured documents with various fields. These fields can be exploited to enhance the retrieval effectiveness of an Information Retrieval (IR) system th...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
TREC
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Patterns of Potential Answer Expressions as Clues to the Right Answers
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
Martin M. Soubbotin