Research and development of information access technology for scanned paper documents has been hampered by the lack of public test collections of realistic scope and complexity. A...
David D. Lewis, Gady Agam, Shlomo Argamon, Ophir F...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
In this paper, we report on our experience with the creation of an automated, human-assisted process to extract metadata from documents in a large (>100,000), dynamically growi...
Jianfeng Tang, Kurt Maly, Steven J. Zeil, Mohammad...
Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challen...
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianq...