One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
While advances have been made in structuring, indexing and retrieval of multimedia documents, we propose to study the unexplored problematics of information retrieval on heterogen...
We present some of the technology developed at StreamSage for indexing and retrieving audio/video data. A primary difficulty of this task is precise extraction of the passages rel...
Anthony Davis, Philip Rennert, Robert Rubinoff, Ti...
For TREC-10, we participated in the adhoc and manual web tracks and in both the site-finding and cross-lingual tracks. For the adhoc track, we did extensive calibrations and learn...
Mohammed Aljlayl, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jense...