This paper reports on work done for the Genomics Track at TREC 2004 by ConverSpeech LLC in conjunction with scientists at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), the model organi...
Colleen E. Crangle, Alex Zbyslaw, J. Michael Cherr...
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Many researchers have noted that web search queries are often ambiguous or unclear. We present an approach for identifying the popular meanings of queries using web search logs an...
In TREC 2004, IRIT modified important features of the strategy that was developed for TREC 2003. Changes include tuning parameter values, topic expansion and exploitation of sente...
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...