The MEDLINE database is the world largest repository of bio-medical abstracts. It is a central information entry point for most biologists despite the growing availability of full-...
PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...
In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...
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...
With the globalization of the world markets, the need for multilingual information processing increases, because the users are increasingly forced to deal with information availab...