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Vertical search engines focus on specific slices of content, such as the Web of a single country or the document collection of a large corporation. Despite this, like general open web search engines, they are expensive to maintain,…

We argue that current IR metrics, modeled on optimizing user experience, measure too narrow a portion of the IR space. If IR systems are weak, these metrics undersample or completely filter out the deeper documents that need improvement. If…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-06 John Alex , Keith Hall , Donald Metzler

The exponential growth of scientific literature necessitates advanced tools for effective knowledge exploration. We present Knowledge Navigator, a system designed to enhance exploratory search abilities by organizing and structuring the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Uri Katz , Mosh Levy , Yoav Goldberg

The growth rate in the amount of biomedical documents is staggering. Unlocking information trapped in these documents can enable researchers and practitioners to operate confidently in the information world. Biomedical NER, the task of…

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In a world where new domains are constantly discovered and machine learning (ML) is applied to automate new tasks every day, challenges arise with the number of samples available to train ML models. While the traditional ML training relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andrea Gajic , Sudip Vhaduri

The race to meet the challenges of the global pandemic has served as a reminder that the existing drug discovery process is expensive, inefficient and slow. There is a major bottleneck screening the vast number of potential small molecules…

Now a day's, search engines are been most widely used for extracting information's from various resources throughout the world. Where, majority of searches lies in the field of biomedical for retrieving related documents from various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Jayanthi Manicassamy , P. Dhavachelvan

Nowadays there is a growing trend in many scientific disciplines to support researchers by providing enhanced information access through linking of publications and underlying datasets, so as to support research with infrastructure to…

General purpose Search Engines (SEs) crawl all domains (e.g., Sports, News, Entertainment) of the Web, but sometimes the informational need of a query is restricted to a particular domain (e.g., Medical). We leverage the work of SEs as part…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Alexander Nwala , Michael Nelson

The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned a diverse body of scientific literature that is challenging to navigate, stimulating interest in automated tools to help find useful knowledge. We pursue the construction of a knowledge base (KB) of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Tom Hope , Aida Amini , David Wadden , Madeleine van Zuylen , Sravanthi Parasa , Eric Horvitz , Daniel Weld , Roy Schwartz , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Existing benchmarks for systematic reviewing remain limited either in scale or in disciplinary coverage, with some collections comprising only a modest number of topics and others focusing primarily on biomedical research. We present…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Pierre Achkar , Tim Gollub , Arno Simons , Harrisen Scells , Martin Potthast

Scientific document classification is a critical task for a wide range of applications, but the cost of obtaining massive amounts of human-labeled data can be prohibitive. To address this challenge, we propose a weakly-supervised approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ran Xu , Yue Yu , Joyce C. Ho , Carl Yang

The large number of user-generated videos uploaded on to the Internet everyday has led to many commercial video search engines, which mainly rely on text metadata for search. However, metadata is often lacking for user-generated videos,…

The sudden change of moving the majority of teaching online at Universities due to the global Covid-19 pandemic has caused an increased amount of workload for academics. One of the contributing factors is answering a high volume of queries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Alexandra Gkolia , Nikhil Fernandes , Nicolas Pizzo , James Davenport , Akshar Nair

Search engine has become a fundamental component in various web and mobile applications. Retrieving relevant documents from the massive datasets is challenging for a search engine system, especially when faced with verbose or tail queries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Kuan Fang , Long Zhao , Zhan Shen , RuiXing Wang , RiKang Zhour , LiWen Fan

Information retrieval (IR) for precision medicine (PM) often involves looking for multiple pieces of evidence that characterize a patient case. This typically includes at least the name of a condition and a genetic variation that applies to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jiho Noh , Ramakanth Kavuluru

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced VQA and now support Vision-DeepResearch systems that use search engines for complex visual-textual fact-finding. However, evaluating these visual and textual search abilities is still…

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Information retrieval (IR) is essential in search engines and dialogue systems as well as natural language processing tasks such as open-domain question answering. IR serve an important function in the biomedical domain, where content and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Man Luo , Arindam Mitra , Tejas Gokhale , Chitta Baral

Background Medical and life science research generates millions of publications, and it is a great challenge for researchers to utilize this information in full since its scale and complexity greatly surpasses human reading capabilities.…

An increasing amount of trajectory data is being annotated with text descriptions to better capture the semantics associated with locations. The fusion of spatial locations and text descriptions in trajectories engenders a new type of…

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