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ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic Score Normalization for Rank Aggregation
Abstract. Rank aggregation is a pervading operation in IR technology. We hypothesize that the performance of score-based aggregation may be affected by artificial, usually meaningl...
Miriam Fernández, David Vallet, Pablo Caste...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...
Rawia Awadallah, Andreas Rauber
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Lexical Entailment for Information Retrieval
Abstract. Textual Entailment has recently been proposed as an application independent task of recognising whether the meaning of one text may be inferred from another. This is pote...
Stéphane Clinchant, Cyril Goutte, Ér...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Index Maintenance in Dynamic Text Retrieval Systems
In-place and merge-based index maintenance are the two main competing strategies for on-line index construction in dynamic information retrieval systems based on inverted lists. Mo...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Sentence Retrieval with LSI and Topic Identification
This paper presents two sentence retrieval methods. We adopt the task definition done in the TREC Novelty Track: sentence retrieval consists in the extraction of the relevant sente...
David Parapar, Alvaro Barreiro