The Web as a global information space is developing from a Web of documents to a Web of data. This development opens new ways for addressing complex information needs. Search is n...
Haofen Wang, Thomas Penin, Kaifeng Xu, Junquan Che...
In TREC Genomics a question/answering task has been proposed. A set of questions with a specific entity of interest is proposed and a set of passages from a collection of full te...
Although monadic second-order logic (MSO) has been a foundation of XML queries, little work has attempted to take MSO formulae themselves as a programming construct. Indeed, MSO f...
Similarity measures are mechanisms that assign a numeric score indicating how closely two documents, or a document and a query match. The Cosine measure is one of the similarity m...
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...