We describe a method for applying parsimonious language models to re-estimate the term probabilities assigned by relevance models. We apply our method to six topic sets from test ...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maar...
Previous research in cross-document entity coreference has generally been restricted to the offline scenario where the set of documents is provided in advance. As a consequence, t...
This paper presents a method for finding a specification page on the web for a given object (e.g., "Titanic") and its class label (e.g., "film"). A specificati...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
This paper investigates whether Web comments are of descriptive nature, that is, whether the combined text of a set of comments is similar in topic to the commented object. If so,...