With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with
a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …

The advent of recent Natural Language Processing technology has led human and machine
interactions more toward conversation. In Conversational Search Systems (CSS) like …

The relative ineffectiveness of information retrieval systems is largely caused by the
inaccuracy with which a query formed by a few keywords models the actual user information …

Query expansion (QE) is a well-known technique used to enhance the effectiveness of
information retrieval. QE reformulates the initial query by adding similar terms that help in …

Bag-of-words retrieval is popular among Question Answering (QA) system developers, but it
does not support constraint checking and ranking on the linguistic and semantic information …

This article describes the algorithms implemented in the Essie search engine that is
currently serving several Web sites at the National Library of Medicine. Essie is a phrase …

Conventional approaches to query expansion (QE) rely on the integration of an unstructured
corpus and probabilistic rules for the extraction of candidate expansion terms. These …

The design and maintenance of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are complex
tasks due to the constantly changing requirements of their users. Despite the efforts of their …

Question Answering Systems (QASs) have emerged as a good alternative for information
seekers to retrieve precise information over the Internet. A good amount of research has …

Decisions run through the whole software development and maintenance processes.
Explicitly documenting these decisions helps to organize development knowledge and to …