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 dened a...
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...
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
We compare different strategies to apply statistical machine translation techniques in order to retrieve documents which are a plausible translation of a given source document. Fi...