We report on two experiments performed to test the importance of Term Order in automatic summarisation. Experiment one was undertaken as part of DUC 2004 to which three systems we...
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
Tables are a ubiquitous form of communication. While everyone seems to know what a table is, a precise, analytical definition of "tabularity" remains elusive because some...
David W. Embley, Matthew Hurst, Daniel P. Lopresti...
Many large-scale Web applications that require ranked top-k retrieval are implemented using inverted indices. An inverted index represents a sparse term-document matrix, where non...
George Beskales, Marcus Fontoura, Maxim Gurevich, ...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...