In this paper, we explored how to use meta-data information in information retrieval task. We presented a new language model that is able to take advantage of the category informa...
Rong Jin, Luo Si, Alexander G. Hauptmann, James P....
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
We propose a self-supervised word-segmentation technique for Chinese information retrieval. This method combines the advantages of traditional dictionary based approaches with cha...
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick ...
We measure the WT10g test collection, used in the TREC-9 and TREC 2001 Web Tracks, and the .GOV test collection used in the TREC 2002 Web and Interactive Tracks, with common measu...
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...