Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
This paper presents an overview of our framework for searching and retrieving facts and relationships within natural language text sources. In this framework, an extraction task o...
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Abstract. The identification of reliable and interesting items on Internet becomes more and more difficult and time consuming. This paper is a position paper describing our intend...