CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
AWIC
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a documentindependent technique for eliciting feedback from users about their information problems. We propose that such a techni...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
In this poster, we describe the study of an interface technique that provides a list of suggested additional query terms as a searcher types a search query, in effect offering int...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
The paper describes our participation in Monolingual tasks at CLEF 2007. We submitted results for the following languages: Hungarian, Bulgarian and Czech. We focused on studying d...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
We describe our system for the monolingual Dutch and multilingual English to Dutch QA tasks. First, we present a brief overview of our QA-system, which makes heavy use of syntacti...