IR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This article presents FIDJI, a question-answering (QA) system for French. FIDJI combines syntactic information with traditional QA techniques such as named entity recognition and t...
IR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
IR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The ability to correctly classify sentences that describe events is an important task for many natural language applications such as Question Answering (QA) and Text Summarisation....
IR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
RankSVM (Herbrich et al, 2000; Joachims, 2002) is a pairwise method for designing ranking models. SVMLight is the only publicly available software for RankSVM. It is slow and, due ...
IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
In this article we present Supervised Semantic Indexing (SSI) which defines a class of nonlinear (quadratic) models that are discriminatively trained to directly map from the word...
IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Recently direct optimization of information retrieval (IR) measures becomes a new trend in learning to rank. Several methods have been proposed and the effectiveness of them has ...
IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010