It is now widely recognized that user interactions with search results can provide substantial relevance information on the documents displayed in the search results. In this pape...
Shihao Ji, Ke Zhou, Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng, Gui-...
We describe our participation in the WiQA 2006 pilot on question answering using Wikipedia, with a focus on comparing linkbased vs content-based retrieval. Our system currently wor...
In classic InformationRetrieval systems a relevant document will not be retrieved in response to a query if the document and query representations do not share at least one term. T...
— Information extraction (IE) systems are trained to extract specific relations from text databases. Real-world applications often require that the output of multiple IE systems...
Alpa Jain, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, AnHai Doan, Lu...
Gossip protocols, also known as epidemic dissemination schemes, are becoming increasingly popular in distributed systems. Yet, it has remained a partially open question to determin...
Dan Alistarh, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Mort...