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ACSC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Re-examination of IR Techniques in QA System
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...
Yi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai
TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Juru at TREC 2004: Experiments with Prediction of Query Difficulty
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Effective top-k computation in retrieving structured documents with term-proximity support
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi, Mingjing Li, Ji-Rong Wen
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Bridging the P2P and WWW Divide with DISCOVIR - DIStributed COntent-based Visual Information Retrieval
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...
Ka Cheung Sia, Cheuk Hang Ng, Chi-Hang Chan