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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Improving novelty detection for general topics using sentence level information patterns
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this work, a new novelty detection approach based on the identif...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Query Profiles for Clarification
Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...
Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
CLEF
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Abstract. This paper describes an experimental investigation of interactive techniques for cross-language information access. The task was to answer factual questions from a large ...
Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting A Controlled Vocabulary to Improve Collection Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...