The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
In this paper, we describe a system for automatic and interactive content-based retrieval of video that integrates features, models, and semantics. The novelty of the approach lie...
John R. Smith, Savitha Srinivasan, Arnon Amir, San...
As our first TREC participation, four runs were submitted for the ad hoc task and two runs for the home page finding task in the web track. For the ad hoc task we experimented on ...
We participated to the TREC-X QA main task and list task with a new system named QUANTUM, which analyzes questions with shallow parsing techniques and regular expressions. Instead...
Sheffield's participation in the inaugural Arabic cross language track is described here. Our goal was to examine how well one could achieve retrieval of Arabic text with the...
Web track results are presented. A software project, IRTools, is described. IRTools is intended to enable information retrieval (IR) experimentation by incorporating methods for m...
This paper presents the DIOGENE question/answering system developed at ITCIrst. The system is based on a rather standard architecture which includes three components for question ...