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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
"More like these": growing entity classes from seeds
We present a corpus-based approach to the class expansion task. For a given set of seed entities we use co-occurrence statistics taken from a text collection to define a membersh...
Luís Sarmento, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de...
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: a study in the domain of clinical medicine
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman
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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
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CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
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CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Ranking robustness: a novel framework to predict query performance
In this paper, we introduce the notion of ranking robustness, which refers to a property of a ranked list of documents that indicates how stable the ranking is in the presence of ...
Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft