We describe a system that provides query based associative access to the contents of distributed information servers. In typical distributed information systems there are so many o...
Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James O'...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2003 Genomics Track and the Robust Track. A common theme that we explored is the robustness of a basic language modeling retri...
: The aims of this paper are twofold. Our first aim is to compare results of the earlier Terabyte tracks to the Million Query track. We submitted a number of runs using different ...