Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
In TREC Genomics a question/answering task has been proposed. A set of questions with a specific entity of interest is proposed and a set of passages from a collection of full te...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Query expansion techniques generally select new query terms from a set of top ranked documents. Although a user’s manual judgment of those documents would much help to select goo...
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...