Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...
In this paper, we have considered a real world information synthesis task, generation of a fixed length multi document summary which satisfies a specific information need. This...
In this paper we propose a novel sentence retrieval method based on extracting highly frequent terms from top retrieved documents. We compare it against state of the art sentence r...
Phonetic speech retrieval is used to augment word based retrieval in spoken document retrieval systems, for in and out of vocabulary words. In this paper, we present a new indexin...
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking schemes in order to effectively handle user keyword search. Despite the fact that XML is a standard repr...