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SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
ADCS
2004
13 years 7 months ago
On the Effectiveness of Relevance Profiling
Relevance profiling is a general process for withindocument retrieval. Given a query, a profile of retrieval status values is computed by sliding a fixed sized window across a doc...
David J. Harper, David Lee
AAAI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Extracting Relevant Snippets for Web Navigation
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Qing Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Qi Yan
AIMSA
2008
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Using Text Segmentation to Enhance the Cluster Hypothesis
An alternative way to tackle Information Retrieval, called Passage Retrieval, considers text fragments independently rather than assessing global relevance of documents. In such a ...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...