We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
The third WePS (Web People Search) Evaluation campaign took place in 2009-2010 and attracted the participation of 13 research groups from Europe, Asia and North America. Given the ...
Javier Artiles, Andrew Borthwick, Julio Gonzalo, S...
In order to index Web images, the whole associated texts are partitioned into a sequence of text blocks, then the local relevance of a term to the corresponding image is calculated...
The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently i...
Disambiguating person names in a set of documents (such as a set of web pages returned in response to a person name) is a key task for the presentation of results and the automatic...