Video information retrieval requires a system to find information relevant to a query which may be represented simultaneously in different ways through a text description, audio...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
Question classification is very important for question answering. This paper presents our research work on automatic question classification through machine learning approaches. W...
Abstract. An increasing and overwhelming amount of biomedical information is available in the research literature mainly in the form of free-text. Biologists need tools that automa...
Generative models such as statistical language modeling have been widely studied in the task of expert search to model the relationship between experts and their expertise indicat...