Given the experimental nature of information retrieval, progress critically depends on analyzing the errors made by existing retrieval approaches and understanding their limitatio...
In TREC 2004, IRIT modified important features of the strategy that was developed for TREC 2003. Changes include tuning parameter values, topic expansion and exploitation of sente...
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
CL Research’s question-answering system for TREC 2003 was modified away from reliance on database technology to the core underlying technology of using massive XML-tagging for p...