Text similarity spans a spectrum, with broad topical similarity near one extreme and document identity at the other. Intermediate levels of similarity – resulting from summariza...
Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, A...
We approached the problem as learning how to order documents by estimated relevance with respect to a user query. Our support vector machines based classifier learns from the rele...
Dmitri Roussinov, Weiguo Fan, Fernando A. Das Neve...
This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF) is devoted to the comparative study of userinclusive cross-language search strategies. In 2005, we have studied two cross-language search tasks:...
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...