: The University of Melbourne carried out experiments in the Terabyte and Web tracks of TREC 2004. We applied a further variant of our impact-based retrieval approach by integratin...
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
Abstract: The goal of information extraction (IE) is to find desired pieces of information in natural language texts and store them in a form that is suitable for automatic queryi...
Web search engines help users find useful information on the WWW. However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the same result regar...
: This is the first year our lab to participate in Trec. We participate in Mixed-Query task for the Web track. All the runs we submitted are based on the modified Okapi weighting s...