According to the database outsourcing model, a data owner delegates database functionality to a thirdparty service provider, which answers queries received from clients. Authentic...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
We consider a hierarchy of queries about causal relationships in graphical models, where each level in the hierarchy requires more detailed information than the one below. The hie...
We investigate an automatic method for Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) that utilizes the multilingual UMLS Metathesaurus to translate Spanish and French natural languag...
David Eichmann, Miguel E. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan
The performance of Information Retrieval in the Question Answering system is not satisfactory from our experiences in TREC QA Track. In this article, we take a comparative study t...