An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
The Service Oriented Architecture enables the development of flexible large scale-applications in open environments by dynamically combining Web services. Nevertheless, current te...
This paper describe the last round of the medical image annotation task in ImageCLEF 2009. After four years, we defined the task as a survey of all the past experience. Seven grou...
Tatiana Tommasi, Barbara Caputo, Petra Welter, Mar...
Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...