The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
This paper presents a method for the automatic generation of a table-of-contents. This type of summary could serve as an effective navigation tool for accessing information in lon...
S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzila...
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
We study the problem of correcting spelling mistakes in text using memory-based learning techniques and a very large database of token n-gram occurrences in web text as training d...
This paper describes a system that performs hierarchical error repair for illformed sentences, with heterarchical control of chart items produced at the lexical, syntactic, and se...