The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
In the context of biomedical information retrieval (IR), this paper explores the relationship between the document’s global context and the query’s local context in an attempt ...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
Information retrieval systems have to deal with uncertain knowledge and query results should reflect this uncertainty in some manner. However, Semantic Web ontologies are based on...
In this paper we use a Unified Relationship Matrix (URM) to represent a set of heterogeneous data objects (e.g., web pages, queries) and their interrelationships (e.g., hyperlinks...
Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox, Weiguo Fan, Benyu Zhang, ...