Given their simple nature, the success of keyword based retrieval systems is astonishing. Although these methods seemingly only process words (and their word counts), they rely on...
It is a traditional belief that in order to scale-up to more effective retrieval and access methods modern Information Retrieval has to consider more the text content. The modalit...
Roberto Basili, Alessandro Moschitti, Maria Teresa...
We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...
In this paper we describe the LIMSI Spoken Document Retrieval system used in the TREC-9 evaluation. This system combines an adapted version of the LIMSI 1999 Hub-4E transcription ...
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Claude Barras, Gille...
We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...