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AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Combining bidirectional translation and synonymy for cross-language information retrieval
This paper introduces a general framework for the use of translation probabilities in cross-language information retrieval based on the notion that information retrieval fundament...
Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using Multiple Query Aspects to Build Test Collections without Human Relevance Judgments
Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...
Miles Efron
IR
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results
We present the results of experiments using terms from citations for scientific literature search. To index a given document, we use terms used by citing documents to describe that...
Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson