This paper is concerned with the problem of question search. In question search, given a question as query, we are to return questions semantically equivalent or close to the quer...
This paper is concerned with user modelling issues such as adaptive educational environments, adaptive information retrieval, and support for collaboration. The HomeWork project is...
Hilary Tunley, Benedict du Boulay, Rosemary Luckin...
This paper presents the results of our initial experiments in the monolingual English, Spanish and Portuguese tasks and the Bilingual Spanish English, Spanish Portuguese, Englis...
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...