In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
When searching for health information, results quality can be judged against available scientific evidence: Do search engines return advice consistent with evidence based medicine...
Thanh Tin Tang, Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Kath...
This study examines the facets and patterns of multiple Web query reformulations with a focus on reformulation sequences. Based on IR interaction models, it was presumed that quer...
Abstract Homepages usually describe important semantic information about conceptual or physical entities, and are hence the main targets for searching and browsing. To facilitate s...
A robust and effective feature map integration method is presented for infrared (IR) target recognition. Noise in an IR image makes a target recognition system unstable in pose es...