Abstract. Analysis of queries posed to open-domain question-answering systems indicates that particular types of queries are dominant, e.g., queries about the identity of people, a...
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
: We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's ILPS group in the relevance feedback track at TREC 2008. We introduce a new model which incorporates informati...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Jiyin He, Maarten de ...
Abstract—This paper introduces and analyzes a new approach to query suggestion. After the user issues a query q0, for every document retrieved in a certain rank range [Θ1, Θ2],...
We propose a method of document image retrieval using digital cameras. The proposed method takes as input a part or the whole of a document acquired as a query by a digital camera...