We investigate four hierarchical clustering methods (single-link, complete-link, groupwise-average, and single-pass) and two linguistically motivated text features (noun phrase he...
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Luis Gravano, Ankineed...
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
We present a method of searching text collections that takes advantage of hierarchrical information within documents and integrates searches of structured and unstructured data. W...
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, D...
The effects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speec...
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Ka...
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which th...