The BioText group participated in the two main tasks of the TREC 2004 Genomics track. Our approach to the ad hoc task was similar to the one used in the 2003 Genomics track, but d...
Preslav Nakov, Ariel S. Schwartz, Emilia Stoica, M...
AnswerFinder combines lexical, syntactic, and semantic information in various stages of the question answering process. The candidate sentences are preselected on the basis of (i)...
In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...
The text-mining system we are building deals with the specific problem of identifying the instances of relevant concepts present in the texts. Therefore, our system relies on inte...
The hypothesis we explored for the Ad Hoc task of the Genomics track for TREC 2004 was that phrase-level queries would increase precision over a baseline of token-level terms. We ...