This paper presents domain-independent methods of spoken document retrieval. Both a continuous-speech large vocabulary recognition system, and a phone-lattice word spotter, are us...
Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sparck Jone...
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...
Abstract. We investigate the influence of term selection and query operations on the text retrieval component of video search. Our main finding is that the greatest gain is to be...
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
In information retrieval, the cluster hypothesis states: closely related documents tend to be relevant to the same request. We exploit this hypothesis directly by adjusting queryb...