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2006
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A relatedness analysis of government regulations using domain knowledge and structural organization
The complexity and diversity of government regulations make understanding and retrieval of regulations a non-trivial task. One of the issues is the existence of multiple sources o...
Gloria T. Lau, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
IR
2006
14 years 9 months ago
Full-text federated search of text-based digital libraries in peer-to-peer networks
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks integrate autonomous computing resources without requiring a central coordinating authority, which makes them a potentially robust and scalabl...
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan
IR
2006
14 years 9 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
IR
2006
14 years 9 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
IR
2006
14 years 9 months ago
Evolving local and global weighting schemes in information retrieval
This paper describes a method, using Genetic Programming, to automatically determine term weighting schemes for the vector space model. Based on a set of queries and their human de...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan
Natural Language Processing
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