Information Extraction methods can be used to automatically "fill-in" database forms from unstructured data such as Web documents or email. State-of-the-art methods have...
Trausti T. Kristjansson, Aron Culotta, Paul A. Vio...
In this paper, we investigate the difference between Wikipedia and Web link structure with respect to their value as indicators of the relevance of a page for a given topic of re...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
A search engine evaluation model that considers over seventy performance and feature parameters is presented. The design of a web-based system that allows the user to tailor the m...
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke