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ACL
2008
14 years 11 months ago
A Re-examination of Query Expansion Using Lexical Resources
Query expansion is an effective technique to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. Although hand-crafted lexical resources, such as WordNet, could provide more...
Hui Fang
LREC
2008
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Creating a Research Collection of Question Answer Sentence Pairs with Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Each year NIST releases a set of question, document id, answer-triples for the factoid questions used in the TREC Question Answering track. While this resource is widely used and ...
Michael Kaisser, John Lowe
UAI
2003
14 years 10 months ago
Exploiting Locality in Searching the Web
Published experiments on spidering the Web suggest that, given training data in the form of a (relatively small) subgraph of the Web containing a subset of a selected class of tar...
Joel Young, Thomas Dean
DKE
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
JUCS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Ranking Retrieval Systems with Partial Relevance Judgements
: Some measures such as mean average precision and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precision and recall that are t...
Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani