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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic term variant generator for biomedical terms
This paper presents an algorithm to generate possible variants for biomedical terms. The algorithm gives each variant its generation probability representing its plausibility, whi...
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun-ichi Tsujii
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat ...
AWIC
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Using Case-Based Reasoning to Improve Information Retrieval in Knowledge Management Systems
Abstract. Complementary to hypertext navigation, classic information retrieval is broadly used to find information on the World Wide Web and on Web-based systems. Among these there...
Norbert Gronau, Frank Laskowski