This paper describes our participation in the TREC 2008 Blog Track. For the opinion task, we made an opinion retrieval model that consists of preprocessing, topic retrieval, opini...
Yeha Lee, Seung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Sang-Hyob Nam,...
Cross language information retrieval is a field of study that has received significant research attention, resulting in systems that despite the errors of automatic translation (f...
Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson, W...
As user demands become increasingly sophisticated, search engines today are competing in more than just returning document results from the Web. One area of competition is providi...
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...