Inverted files are widely used to index documents in large-scale information retrieval systems. An inverted file consists of posting lists, which can be stored in either a documen...
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University, on the TREC7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track. The broadcast news audio was transcribed using a 2-pass gender-dependent...
Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, G. L. Moore, Karen Spa...
Modern information retrieval systems need the capability to reason about the knowledge conveyed by text bases. In this paper a methodology to automatically create ontologies and cl...
Abstract. Analysis of queries posed to open-domain question-answering systems indicates that particular types of queries are dominant, e.g., queries about the identity of people, a...
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Hua...