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, ...
The number of news reports published online is now so great that it is impossible for any person to read all of them. Not all of these reports are equally interesting. Automating ...
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is an effective method to discover the underlying semantic structure of data. It has numerous applications in information retrieval and data mining....
The objective of the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) 2007 is to develop systems able to decide if the answer to a question is correct or not. Since it is expected that a high per...