This paper describes the results of some experiments using a new approach to information access that combines techniques from natural language processing and knowledge representat...
William A. Woods, Lawrence A. Bookman, Ann Houston...
It seems obvious that a successful model of natural language would incorporate a great deal of both linguistic and world knowledge. Interestingly, state of the art language models...
Eric Brill, Radu Florian, John C. Henderson, Lidia...
Abstract. Improving accuracy in Information Retrieval tasks via semantic information is a complex problem characterized by three main aspects: the document representation model, th...
Roberto Basili, Marco Cammisa, Alessandro Moschitt...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...