This paper presents the extension of the ITC-irst DIOGENE Question Answering system towards multilinguality. DIOGENE relies on a well tested three-components architecture built in...
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
Statistical model in retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. Extended Boolean model has been widely used in business system for its easiness to be complemented and n...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Robust and Web tracks. For the Robust track, we experimented with the impact of stemming and feedback on the worst scoring topics. ...
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, B&oum...