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AUSAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Analyzing the Effect of Query Class on Document Retrieval Performance
Abstract. Analysis of queries posed to open-domain question-answering systems indicates that particular types of queries are dominant, e.g., queries about the identity of people, a...
Pawel Kowalczyk, Ingrid Zukerman, Michael Niemann
IR
2010
13 years 1 months ago
Statistical query expansion for sentence retrieval and its effects on weak and strong queries
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
David E. Losada
ECIR
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness
Query expansion is an effective technique in improving the retrieval performance for ad-hoc retrieval. However, query expansion can also fail, leading to a degradation of the retri...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis
PDPTA
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Document Retrieval Performance on Parallel Systems
The problem of eciently retrieving and ranking documents from a huge collection according to their relevance to a research topic is addressed. A broad class of queries is de ned a...
David Hawking
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Effects of out of vocabulary words in spoken document retrieval
The effects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speec...
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Ka...