In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
We present TweetMotif, an exploratory search application for Twitter. Unlike traditional approaches to information retrieval, which present a simple list of messages, TweetMotif g...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
We propose a system that registers and retrieves text documents to annotate them on-line. The user registers a text document captured from a nearly top view and adds virtual annot...
Abstract—Recent progress in research fields such as Information Extraction and Information Retrieval enables the creation of systems providing better search experiences to web u...
Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Firan, Mihai George...