A user’s informational need and preferences can be modeled by criteria, which in turn can be used to prioritize candidate results and produce a ranked list. We examine the use of...
We describe WiQA 2006, a pilot task aimed at studying question answering using Wikipedia. Going beyond traditional factoid questions, the task considered at WiQA 2006 was to return...
Although the application of data fusion in information retrieval has yielded good results in the majority of the cases, it has been noticed that its achievement is dependent on the...
We argue that expert finding is sensitive to multiple document features in an organization, and therefore, can benefit from the incorporation of these document features. We propos...
This work addresses the use of computational linguistic analysis techniques for conceptual graphs learning from unstructured texts. A technique including both content mining and i...