A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
The Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is a series of Natural Language Processing evaluation workshops organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Knowledge B...
Heather Simpson, Stephanie Strassel, Robert Parker...
A boolean formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF) F is refuted by literal?once resolution if the empty clause is inferred from F by resolving on each literal of F at most once. Li...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...