We address the task of extracting focused salient information items, relevant and important for a given topic, from a large encyclopedic resource. Specifically, for a given topic...
We present some of the technology developed at StreamSage for indexing and retrieving audio/video data. A primary difficulty of this task is precise extraction of the passages rel...
Anthony Davis, Philip Rennert, Robert Rubinoff, Ti...
In many situations, individuals or groups of individuals are faced with the need to examine sets of documents to achieve understanding of their structure and to locate relevant in...
Alneu de Andrade Lopes, Roberto Pinho, Fernando Vi...
The main purpose of topic detection and tracking (TDT) is to detect, group, and organize newspaper articles reporting on the same event. Since an event is a reported occurrence at...
In TREC 2004, IRIT modified important features of the strategy that was developed for TREC 2003. Changes include tuning parameter values, topic expansion and exploitation of sente...