Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
Case Retrieval Networks (CRNs) facilitate flexible and efficient retrieval in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems. While CRNs scale up well to handle large numbers of cases in the c...
Sutanu Chakraborti, Robert Lothian, Nirmalie Wirat...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
This paper presents four novel techniques for open-vocabulary spoken document retrieval: a method to detect slots that possibly contain a query feature; a method to estimate occurr...