We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Most of the Web-based methods for lexicon augmenting consist in capturing global semantic features of the targeted domain in order to collect relevant documents from the Web. We s...
As XML documents contain both content and structure information, taking advantage of the document structure in the retrieval process can lead to better identify relevant informati...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...
We present an approach to information retrieval based on context distance and morphology. Context distance is a measure we use to assess the closeness of word meanings. This conte...
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University for the TREC-9 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The CUHTK transcriptions from TREC-8 with Word Error Rate (WER) of 20.5...
Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Ph...