Answer typing is commonly thought of as finding appropriate responses to given questions. We extend the notion of answer typing to information retrieval to ensure results contain...
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
We present a new model for detection of noun phrases in unrestricted text, whose most outstanding feature is its flexibility: the system is able to recognize noun phrases similar ...
We develop query relaxation techniques for regular path queries and combine them with query approximation in order to support flexible querying of RDF data when the user lacks know...