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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
A Two-Stage Approach to Retrieving Answers for How-To Questions
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Ling Yin
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Dependence language model for information retrieval
This paper presents a new dependence language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic language modeling approach based on unigram by relaxing th...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong ...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
UB at CLEF2004: Cross Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical Language Models
This paper presents the results of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual tasks at CLEF 2004. For these tasks we used an approach ba...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval
In the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Track we experimented with language-specific morphosyntactic processing and light Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the retrieval of Bulgarian, French,...
Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis...