: This paper describes an approach to information retrieval based on a syntactic analysis of the document texts and user queries, and from that analysis, the construction of tree s...
In TREC-10, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) participated in the Web track (ad hoc retrieval task and homepage finding task). The latest version of the Okapi system (Windows 2000 ve...
Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang,...
We describe an approach for multi-modal characterization of social media by combining text features (e.g. tags as a prominent example of short, unstructured text labels) with spat...
This paper presents FuMaS (Fuzzy Matching System), a system capable of an efficient retrieval of postal addresses from noisy queries. The fuzzy postal addresses retrieval has many...
Automated Question- Answering aims at delivering concise information that contains answers to user questions. This paper reviews and compares three main question-answering approac...