TREC
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
One of the NLM experimental approaches to the 2007 Genomics track question answering task followed the track evaluation design: we attempted identifying exact answers in the form ...
ANLP
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
This paper describes the results of some experiments using a new approach to information access that combines techniques from natural language processing and knowledge representat...
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
For the TREC 2004 Novelty track, UMass participated in all four tasks. Although finding relevant sentences was harder this year than last, we continue to show marked improvements ...
RIAO
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Information Retrieval Systems aim at retrieving relevant documents according to the information needs which users express. Most Information Retrieval Systems focus on passage retr...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper describes our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) in the context of our participation in the GeoCLEF 2006 Monolingual English task. The TALPGeoIR sy...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
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...
CICLING
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Passage retrieval consists in identifying short but informative runs of a long text, given a specific user query. We discuss the sources of evidence that help choosing likely high-...