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...
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 ...
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...
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
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...