A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
In TREC 2007, we participate in four tasks of the Blog and Enterprise tracks. We continue experiments using Terrier1 [14], our modular and scalable Information Retrieval (IR) plat...
David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Jie Peng, Ben He, I...
Users of Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries are known by their needs for very specific information about one or more subjects. To characterize users profiles and offe...
Marisa R. De Giusti, Gonzalo L. Villarreal, Agust&...
Using Dirac Notation as a powerful tool, we investigate the three classical Information Retrieval (IR) models and some their extensions. We show that almost all such models can be...
The retrieval performance of an information retrieval system usually increases when it uses the relationships among the terms contained in a given document collection. However, th...