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WWW
2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
115views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Pertti Vakkari, Mari Taneli
ICMI
2009
Springer
105views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Grounding spatial prepositions for video search
Spatial language video retrieval is an important real-world problem that forms a test bed for evaluating semantic structures for natural language descriptions of motion on natural...
Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy
CLEF
2007
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-Hoc Bilingual Task at CLEF 2007
This paper presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of participation in the CLEF 2007 ad-hoc bilingual task. This is our first participation in the CLEF...
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Tapabrata Mondal, Sudip Kuma...
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 22 days ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler