This paper describes the Active Reading task, a recent addition to the INEX Book Search track1 . This task aims at exploring how people interact with e-books in different scenario...
Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this...
In this paper, we describe a reading comprehension system. This system can return a sentence in a given document as the answer to a given question. This system applies bag-of-words...