Abstract. It is well known that pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves the retrieval performance of Information Retrieval (IR) systems in general. However, a recent study by Cao ...
In this paper, we propose a Relation Expansion framework, which uses a few seed sentences marked up with two entities to expand a set of sentences containing target relations. Duri...
—In many search domains, both contents and searches are frequently tied to named entities such as a person, a company or similar. An example of such a domain is a news archive. O...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Biomedical entity extraction from unstructured web documents is an important task that needs to be performed in order to discover knowledge in the veterinary medicine domain. In ge...
Svitlana Volkova, Doina Caragea, William H. Hsu, J...