Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR communit...
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Web pages are often recognized by others through contexts. These contexts determine how linked pages influence and interact with each other. When differentiating such interactions,...
Creating more fine-grained annotated data than previously relevent document sets is important for evaluating individual components in automatic question answering systems. In this...