Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
In this poster we describe alternative inverted index structures that reduce the time required to process queries, produce a higher query throughput and still return high quality ...
Paul Ferguson, Alan F. Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Pet...
In this work we propose a method that retrieves a list of related queries given an initial input query. The related queries are based on the query log of previously issued queries...
Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...