In this paper, we propose the Hybrid-Layer Index (simply, the HL-index) that is designed to answer top-k queries efficiently when the queries are expressed on any arbitrary subset ...
This year, we have participated on Ad-Hoc Robust Multilingual track with the aim to evaluate two issues of CLIR systems. Firstly, this paper describes the method followed for quer...
In this paper, we have considered a real world information synthesis task, generation of a fixed length multi document summary which satisfies a specific information need. This...
While the notion of a cooperative response has been the focus of considerable research in natural language dialogue systems, there has been little empirical work demonstrating how...
The widespread use of templates on the Web is considered harmful for two main reasons. Not only do they compromise the relevance judgment of many web IR and web mining methods suc...
Karane Vieira, Altigran Soares da Silva, Nick Pint...