Prior-art search is an important task in patent retrieval. The success of this task relies upon the selection of relevant search queries. Typically terms for prior-art queries are ...
Given a drug under development, what are other drugs or biochemical compounds that it might interact with? Early answers to this question, by mining the literature, are valuable f...
The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
For our participation in CLEF, the Berkeley group participated in the monolingual, multilingual and GIRT tasks. To help enrich the CLEF relevance set for future training, we prepa...
Fredric C. Gey, Hailing Jiang, Vivien Petras, Aita...