Pseudo-relevance feedback, or query expansion, has been shown to improve retrieval performance in the adhoc retrieval task. In such a scenario, a few top-ranked documents are assu...
One of the NLM experimental approaches to the 2007 Genomics track question answering task followed the track evaluation design: we attempted identifying exact answers in the form ...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Susanne M. Humphrey, Nicholas...
In addition to the actual content Web pages consist of navigational elements, templates, and advertisements. This boilerplate text typically is not related to the main content, ma...
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Hyperlinks are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, highly responsible for its success. XLink improves on HTML’s linking capabilities in several ways. In particular, link...