Are P2P systems and applications here to stay? Or are they a bright meteor whose destiny is to disappear soon? In this paper we try to give a positive answer to the first questio...
Renato Lo Cigno, Tommaso Pecorella, Matteo Sereno,...
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...
Scalable information retrieval systems are crucial to meeting the growing volumes of data. We describe work done to facilitate scalability by reducing duplication, providing integ...
The Keyword Translator is a part of the Question Analyzer module in the JAVELIN Question-Answering system; it translates the keywords that are used to query documents and extract a...
This paper summarizes the results of our first participation at ResPubliQA. Lacking a true question answering system, we relied on our traditional search engine to find the answers...