We formulate a document summarization method to extract passage-level answers for non-
factoid queries, referred to as answer-biased summaries. We propose to use external …

1 INTRODUCTION e second TREC CORE Track 1 continues the ad-hoc evaluation
campaign from 2017, where the aim is to bring the community together to solicit a diverse set …

Typing is a common form of query input for search engines and other information retrieval
systems; we therefore investigate the relationship between typing behavior and search …

Furthering the state-of-the-art in adhoc web search is one of the underlying goals for the
NTCIR-13 We Want Web (WWW) task. Adhoc search can be viewed as a bridge connecting …

This paper describes the four systems RMIT fielded for the TREC 2016 LiveQA task and the
associated experiments. Similar to last year, the results show that simple solutions tend to …

Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained
momentum in the recent years with the explosive rate at which social media has been …

1 INTRODUCTION e TREC 2017 CORE Track 1 is a re-run of the classic TREC ad hoc
search evaluation campaign, with the vision of establishing new methodologies for creating …

1 Introduction... the true role (of information retrieval systems) is to provide information that
has utility–information that helps to directly resolve given problems, that directly bears on …

Answer-biased Summarization Page 1 Answer-biased Summarization A thesis submitted in
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Evi Yulianti Bachelor of …