This is the first year that the Dalhousie University participated in TREC. We submitted three runs for the QA track. Our evaluation results are generally below the median (with on...
: This paper describes experiments done on the VLC2 collection at TREC-7. Methods used for indexing text is described together with the results: this includes the official collecti...
Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. Mc...
The goal of contextual information retrieval (CIR) is to better meet the user's needs by delivering him information adapted to his specific search context. This paper presents...
The widespread use of artificial neural networks and the difficult work regarding the correct specification (tuning) of parameters for a given problem are the main aspects that mot...
We present an approach for answering Entity Retrieval queries using click-through information in query log data from a commercial Web search engine. We compare results using click...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...