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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
A Two-Stage Approach to Retrieving Answers for How-To Questions
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Ling Yin
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Optimization strategies for complex queries
Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...
Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft
HT
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Bridging link and query intent to enhance web search
Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...
Na Dai, Xiaoguang Qi, Brian D. Davison
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Time-based language models
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Predicting accuracy of extracting information from unstructured text collections
Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
Eugene Agichtein, Silviu Cucerzan