This paper describes our first large-scale retrieval attempt in TREC-7 using DSIR. DSIR is a vector space based retrieval system in which semantic similarity between words, docume...
Stemming algorithms find canonical forms for inflected words, e. g. for declined nouns or conjugated verbs. Since such a unification of words with respect to gender, number, time, ...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
We now have incrementally-grown databases of text documents ranging back for over a decade in areas ranging from personal email, to news-articles and conference proceedings. While...
Advertising in the case of textual Web pages has been studied extensively by many researchers. However, with the increasing amount of multimedia data such as image, audio and vide...
Yuqiang Chen, Ou Jin, Gui-Rong Xue, Jia Chen, Qian...