SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1998
ACM
Abstract Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several researchers b...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2000
ACM
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. We investigates the effectiveness of language-dependent approaches to document retrieval, such as stemming and decompounding, and constrast them with language-independen...
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The performance of Information Retrieval in the Question Answering system is not satisfactory from our experiences in TREC QA Track. In this article, we take a comparative study t...
ICADL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
AACC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Searching on the Internet has grown in importance over the last few years, as huge amount of information is invariably accumulated on the Web. The problem involves locating the des...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
ADC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
In this work, we investigate utilizing the structure of a website to increase the effectiveness of document retrieval within a structured domain. In particular we examine various ...