Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yans...
It is well known that the main objective of conceptual retrieval models is to go beyond simple term matching by relaxing term independence assumption through concept recognition. ...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
Bursty features in text streams are very useful in many text mining applications. Most existing studies detect bursty features based purely on term frequency changes without takin...
Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Jing He, Dongdong Shan...
Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Information Retrieval has always been an interesting and challenging research area. Despite the high expectations, most of the results indica...