We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
Every day millions of users search for information on the web via search engines, and provide implicit feedback to the results shown for their queries by clicking or not onto them...
Carlos Castillo, Claudio Corsi, Debora Donato, Pao...
This paper presents several paradigms by which users of Verity business portals (from within as well as from outside an enterprise) discover and navigate relevant semistructured d...
Mani Abrol, Neil Latarche, Uma Mahadevan, Jianchan...
We often reach conclusions partially on the basis that we do not have evidence that the conclusion is false. A newspaper story warning that the local water supply has been contamin...
The world is covered with millions of webcams. Some are private, but many transmit everything in their field of view over the internet 24 hours a day. A web search finds public we...
Yael Pritch, Alex Rav-Acha, Avital Gutman, Shmuel ...