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AI
2002
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System for Indian Languages
This paper describes our first participation in the Indian language sub-task of the main Adhoc monolingual and bilingual track in CLEF1 competition. In this track, the task is to...
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, A. Kumaran
JIIS
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Using Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence to Combine Aspects of Information Use
In this paper we propose a model for relevance feedback. Our model combines evidence from user's relevance assessments with algorithms describing how words are used within do...
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas
ANLP
1997
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13 years 10 months ago
Building Effective Queries In Natural Language Information Retrieval
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...