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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz
TREC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Combining Linguistic Processing and Web Mining for Question Answering: ITC-irst at TREC 2004
This paper describes the work we have been done in the last year on the DIOGENE Question Answering system developed at ITC-Irst. We present two preliminary experiments showing the...
Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Mining the Web for Answers to Natural Language Questions
Dragomir R. Radev, Hong Qi, Zhiping Zheng, Sasha B...
WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
Question Answering over Implicitly Structured Web Content
Implicitly structured content on the Web such as HTML tables and lists can be extremely valuable for web search, question answering, and information retrieval, as the implicit str...
Eugene Agichtein, Chris Burges, Eric Brill