Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
We present a fully automatic and weighted dictionary to be used in topical opinion retrieval. We also define a simple topical opinion retrieval function that is free from paramete...
Gianni Amati, Edgardo Ambrosi, Marco Bianchi, Carl...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
This is the first year that the Dalhousie University participated in TREC. We submitted three runs for the QA track. Our evaluation results are generally below the median (with on...
This paper describes several approaches which we used for the expert search task of the TREC 2007 Enterprise track. We studied several methods of relevance propagation from docume...