We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
Reasoning about agent preferences on a set of alternatives, and the aggregation of such preferences into some social ranking is a fundamental issue in reasoning about uncertainty ...
Emerging distributed technologies aim to provide simple and powerful tools for web services design and implementation. Main vendors provide modern frameworks so that a good coordi...
In this paper, we proposed a content-based multimedia analysis/retrieval system basing mainly on the MPEG-7 defined features. Some new and specific features are also included for ...
For the legal track we used the Wumpus search engine and investigated several methods that have proven successful in other domains, including cover density ranking and Okapi BM25 ...