This paper proposes a cache hierarchy that enables Web search engines to efficiently process user queries. The different caches in the hierarchy are used to store pieces of data w...
Users of search engines express their needs as queries, typically consisting of a small number of terms. The resulting search engine query logs are valuable resources that can be ...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Seyed M. M. Tahaghog...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
Gary Geunbae Lee, Jungyun Seo, Seungwoo Lee, Hanmi...
Most information retrieval (IR) interfaces are designed for a single user working with a dedicated interface. We present a system in which the IR interface has been fully integrat...
Alan F. Blackwell, Mark Stringer, Eleanor F. Toye,...