One of the most desired information types when planning a trip to some place is the knowledge of transport, roads and geographical connectedness of prominent sites in this place. ...
Abstract. The LogAnswer system is an application of automated reasoning to the field of open domain question-answering, the retrieval of answers to natural language questions regar...
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-con...
An increasing number of comfortable publishing systems nowadays leads to documents containing more than just textual information. Graphics and images are combined with text and of...