This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
The main text content of an HTML document on the WWW is typically surrounded by additional contents, such as navigation menus, advertisements, link lists or design elements. Conte...
The PISAB Question Answering system is based on a combination of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval techniques. Knowledge extracted from documents is modeled as a se...
The Protein Information Resource (PIR) serves as an integrated public resource of functional annotation of protein data to support genomic/proteomic research and scientific discov...
Cathy H. Wu, Hongzhan Huang, Leslie Arminski, Jorg...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...