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CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Query Expansion on a Corporate Intranet: Using LSI to Increase Precision in Explorative Search
Previous research has taught us that the typical nonprofessional information seeker on the World Wide Web submits very short queries resulting in low-precision results. We show th...
Dick Stenmark
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Named entity normalization in user generated content
Named entity recognition is important for semantically oriented retrieval tasks, such as question answering, entity retrieval, biomedical retrieval, trend detection, and event and...
Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Maarten Mar...
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study
The KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an unsupervised, doma...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Interoperability Using Query Interpretation in Semantic Vector Spaces
Abstract. In semantic web applications where query initiators and information providers do not necessarily share the same ontology, semantic interoperability generally relies on on...
Anthony Ventresque, Sylvie Cazalens, Philippe Lama...