Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
Gary Geunbae Lee, Jungyun Seo, Seungwoo Lee, Hanmi...
This paper uses the URL word breaking task as an example to elaborate what we identify as crucialin designingstatistical natural language processing (NLP) algorithmsfor Web scale ...
Kuansan Wang, Christopher Thrasher, Bo-June Paul H...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
While tags in collaborative tagging systems serve primarily an indexing purpose, facilitating search and navigation of resources, the use of the same tags by more than one individu...