In this paper, an approach for the implementation of a qualitybased Web search engine is proposed. Quality retrieval is introduced and an overview on previous efforts to implement...
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Abstract. An open challenge in information distillation is the evaluation and optimization of the utility of ranked lists with respect to flexible user interactions over multiple ...
Currently in document retrieval there are many algorithms each with different strengths and weakness. There is some difficulty, however, in evaluating the impact of the test quer...