CLEF
2008
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
2008
Springer
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2002
ACM
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...