Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...
In TREC-10, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) participated in the Web track (ad hoc retrieval task and homepage finding task). The latest version of the Okapi system (Windows 2000 ve...
Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang,...
The Internet constitutes a potential huge store of parallel text that may be collected to be exploited by many applications such as multilingual information retrieval, machine tran...
We investigate the problem of learning to rank for document retrieval from the perspective of learning with multiple objective functions. We present solutions to two open problems...
Krysta Marie Svore, Maksims Volkovs, Christopher J...
Detection of template and noise blocks in web pages is an important step in improving the performance of information retrieval and content extraction. Of the many approaches propos...