Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Questions that require answers in the form of a list of entities and the identification of diverse biological entity classes present an interesting challenge that required new app...
Luis Tari, Phan Huy Tu, Barry Lumpkin, Robert Leam...
—The IT domain has considerably evolved, users are now surrounded with cheaper and more powerful terminals than ever. Mobile and fixed devices connected to high-speed network tec...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
Multiuser diversity (MUDiv) is one of the central concepts in multiuser (MU) systems. In particular, MUDiv allows for scheduling among users in order to eliminate the negative effe...