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ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Information Retrieval Based on Context Distance and Morphology
We present an approach to information retrieval based on context distance and morphology. Context distance is a measure we use to assess the closeness of word meanings. This conte...
Hongyan Jing, Evelyne Tzoukermann
KDD
1998
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic Modeling for Information Retrieval with Unsupervised Training Data
We apply a well-known Bayesian probabilistic model to textual information retrieval: the classification of documents based on their relevance to a query. This model was previously...
Ernest P. Chan, Santiago Garcia, Salim Roukos
ANLP
1997
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15 years 5 months ago
Building Effective Queries In Natural Language Information Retrieval
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
CLEF
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Scientific Data of an Evaluation Campaign: Do We Properly Deal with Them?
Abstract. This paper examines the current way of keeping the data produced during the evaluation campaigns and highlights some shortenings of it. As a consequence, we propose a new...
Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola...