CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2002
ACM
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...