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In this paper, we try to answer the question of how to improve the state-of-the-art methods for relevance ranking in web search by query segmentation. Here, by query segmentation it is meant to segment the input query into segments,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Haocheng Wu , Yunhua Hu , Hang Li , Enhong Chen

Question classification is one of the important links in the research of question and answering system. The existing question classification models are more trained on public data sets. At present, there is a lack of question classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Jinzhang Liu

Given a classification model and a prediction for some input, there are heuristic strategies for ranking features according to their importance in regard to the prediction. One common approach to this task is rooted in propositional logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tomás Capdevielle , Santiago Cifuentes

In a dynamic retrieval system, documents must be ingested as they arrive, and be immediately findable by queries. Our purpose in this paper is to describe an index structure and processing regime that accommodates that requirement for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Alistair Moffat , Joel Mackenzie

The design or simulation analysis of special equipment products must follow the national standards, and hence it may be necessary to repeatedly consult the contents of the standards in the design process. However, it is difficult for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Liu Xingguang , Cheng Zhenbo , Shen Zhengyuan , Zhang Haoxin , Meng Hangcheng , Xu Xuesong , Xiao Gang

Intelligent personal assistant systems with either text-based or voice-based conversational interfaces are becoming increasingly popular around the world. Retrieval-based conversation models have the advantages of returning fluent and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Liu Yang , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Jiafeng Guo , Yongfeng Zhang , W. Bruce Croft , Jun Huang , Haiqing Chen

Information retrieval systems such as open web search and recommendation systems are ubiquitous and significantly impact how people receive and consume online information. Previous research has shown the importance of fairness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Fumian Chen , Hui Fang

Question answering (QA) systems are among the most important and rapidly developing research topics in natural language processing (NLP). A reason, therefore, is that a QA system allows humans to interact more naturally with a machine,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Amer Farea , Zhen Yang , Kien Duong , Nadeesha Perera , Frank Emmert-Streib

Email Retrieval task has recently taken much attention to help the user retrieve the email(s) related to the submitted query. Up to our knowledge, existing email retrieval ranking approaches sort the retrieved emails based on some heuristic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-11-03 Samir AbdelRahman , Basma Hassan , Reem Bahgat

Conversational search systems enable information retrieval via natural language interactions, with the goal of maximizing users' information gain over multiple dialogue turns. The increasing prevalence of conversational interfaces adopting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Phillip Schneider , Wessel Poelman , Michael Rovatsos , Florian Matthes

Machine learning classification tasks often benefit from predicting a set of possible labels with confidence scores to capture uncertainty. However, existing methods struggle with the high-dimensional nature of the data and the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Rui Luo , Zhixin Zhou

Traditional retrieval methods rely on transforming user queries into vector representations and retrieving documents based on cosine similarity within an embedding space. While efficient and scalable, this approach often fails to handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Felix Faltings , Wei Wei , Yujia Bao

Email Retrieval task has recently taken much attention to help the user retrieve the email(s) related to the submitted query. Up to our knowledge, existing email retrieval ranking approaches sort the retrieved emails based on some heuristic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Samir AbdelRahman , Basma Hassan , Reem Bahgat

Neural networks with deep architectures have demonstrated significant performance improvements in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. The challenges in information retrieval (IR), however, are different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Bhaskar Mitra

Searching for new information requires talking to the system. In this research, an Open-domain Conversational information search system has been developed. This system has been implemented using the TREC CAsT 2019 track, which is one of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Omid Mohammadi Kia , Mahmood Neshati , Mahsa Soudi Alamdari

The similarity between the question and indexed documents is a crucial factor in document retrieval for retrieval-augmented question answering. Although this is typically the only method for obtaining the relevant documents, it is not the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

We propose a computationally efficient and high-performance classification algorithm by incorporating class structural information in analysis dictionary learning. To achieve more consistent classification, we associate a class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Wen Tang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

Prior work in standardized science exams requires support from large text corpus, such as targeted science corpus fromWikipedia or SimpleWikipedia. However, retrieving knowledge from the large corpus is time-consuming and questions embedded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao Shi

Any system which performs goal-directed continual learning must not only learn incrementally but process and absorb information incrementally. Such a system also has to understand when its goals have been achieved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Samira Abnar , Tania Bedrax-weiss , Tom Kwiatkowski , William W. Cohen

Community Question Answering is the field of computational linguistics that deals with problems derived from the questions and answers posted to websites such as Quora or Stack Overflow. Among some of these problems we find the issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Lucas Valentin