List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Structured document retrieval makes use of document components as the basis of the retrieval process, rather than complete documents. The inherent relationships between these comp...
Jane Reid, Mounia Lalmas, Karen Finesilver, Morten...
The Multimedia and Information Systems group at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University participated in the Expert Search and Document Search tasks of the Enterprise ...
Classic methods for Bayesian inference effectively constrain search to lie within regions of significant probability of the temporal prior. This is efficient with an accurate dyna...
David Demirdjian, Leonid Taycher, Gregory Shakhnar...
As WWW becomes more and more popular and powerful, how to search information on the web in database way becomes an important research topic. COMMIX, which is developed in the DB g...
Tengjiao Wang, Shiwei Tang, Dongqing Yang, Jun Gao...