An interactive track was included in INEX for the first time in 2004. The main aim of the track was to study the behaviour of searchers when interacting with components of XML doc...
This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system DIOGENE. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. DI...
The traditional retrieval models based on term matching are not effective in collections of degraded documents (output of OCR or ASR systems for instance). This paper presents a n...
While participating in the HARD track our first question was, what an IR-application should look like that takes into account preference meta-data from the user, without the need ...
Topic distillation is one of the main information needs when users search the Web. In previous approaches to topic distillation, the single page was treated as the basic searching ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Guang Feng, W...