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2004
14 years 11 months ago
Using Clustering and Blade Clusters in the Terabyte Task
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
Giuseppe Attardi, Andrea Esuli, Chirag Patel
WWW
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Re-examination of IR Techniques in QA System
The performance of Information Retrieval in the Question Answering system is not satisfactory from our experiences in TREC QA Track. In this article, we take a comparative study t...
Yi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai
TREC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Information Needs and Automatic Queries
Tarragon Consulting Corporation participated in the adhoc retrieval task of the TREC 2004 Genomics Track. We used a standard deployment of the K2 search engine from Verity, Inc. i...
Richard M. Tong
AIRS
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Subsite Retrieval: A Novel Concept for Topic Distillation
Topic distillation is one of the main information needs when users search the Web. In previous approaches to topic distillation, the single page was treated as the basic searching ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Guang Feng, W...