Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
- We investigate extensions of the classical measurement of effectiveness in information retrieval systems, precision and recall, to situations where the answer is modeled by a fuz...
This paper presents a theoretical methodology to evaluate filters in XML retrieval. Theoretical evaluation is concerned with the formal investigation of qualitative properties of r...
In TREC 2007, Language Computer Corporation explored how a new, semantically-rich framework for information retrieval could be used to boost the overall performance of the answer ...
Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Bryan Rink, Jeremy Ben...
The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF) is devoted to the comparative study of userinclusive cross-language search strategies. In 2005, we have studied two cross-language search tasks:...