In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
The Web consists of a large amount of unstructured information that hardly can be elaborated by automatic agents. In recent years, a considerable number of techniques for informat...
Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Marco Ernande...
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...
Speech-based applications commonly come with web-based or printed manuals. Alternatively, the dialogue can be designed so that users should be able to start using the application ...
Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen, Esa-Pekka Salone...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...