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...
In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...
This paper describes a digital theater installation called Buzz. Buzz consists of virtual actors who express the collective voice generated by weblogs (blogs). These actors find ...
Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, David A. Shamma,...
In this paper we present ColibriCook: a CBR system for ontology-based cooking recipe retrieval and adaptation. The system's purpose is to participate in the 1st Computer Cooki...
This paper presents our experiments in applying semantic information to improve the precision of the information retrieval module in a closed-domain question-answering system. Tha...