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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
LREC
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Experiments to Investigate the Connection between Case Distribution and Topical Relevance of Search Terms in an Information Retr
We have performed a set of experiments made to investigate the utility of morphological analysis to improve retrieval of documents written in languages with relatively large morph...
Jussi Karlgren, Hercules Dalianis, Bart Jongejan
DELOS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Relevance Feedback for Best Match Term Weighting Algorithms in Information Retrieval
Personalisation in full text retrieval or full text filtering implies reweighting of the query terms based on some explicit or implicit feedback from the user. Relevance feedback i...
Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 25 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