Guided summarization is an extension of query-focused multidocument summarization. We proposed a novel ranking algorithm, Topic Guided Manifold Ranking with Sink Points (TMSP) for guided summarization tasks of TAC2010. TMSP is a topic extended version of Manifold Ranking with Sink Points (MRSP), which handles the Update Summarization tasks of TAC2009 well. We adopt the TMSP and MRSP methods to ...

The TREC 2004 Genomics Track consisted of two tasks. The first task was a standard ad hoc retrieval task using topics obtained from real biomedical research scientists and documents from a large subset of the MEDLINE bibliographic database. The second task focused on categorization of full-text documents, simulating the task of curators of the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) system and consistin...

Among the latest efficient approaches in language teaching, Task-based Language Teaching has turned up to be the main approach in a way that it is currently recognized as the leading teaching approach in language instruction (Ji & Pham, 2017). Using the proper tasks based on the proficiency level of the learners can facilitate the process of language learning. The present study aimed at...

The goal of the INEX 2009 Book Track is to evaluate approaches for supporting users in reading, searching, and navigating the full texts of digitized books. The investigation is focused around four tasks: 1) the Book Retrieval task aims at comparing traditional and book-specific retrieval approaches, 2) the Focused Book Search task evaluates focused retrieval approaches for searching books, 3) ...

This report describes the work done by the RFIA group at the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación of the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia for the 2005 edition of the CLEF Question Answering task. We participated in three monolingual tasks: Spanish, Italian and French, and in two cross-language tasks: spanish to english and english to spanish. Since this was our first participa...

Topic models based on latent Dirichlet allocation and related methods are used in a range of user-focused tasks including document navigation and trend analysis, but evaluation of the intrinsic quality of the topic model and topics remains an open research area. In this work, we explore the two tasks of automatic evaluation of single topics and automatic evaluation of whole topic models, and pr...

The creation and the improvement of tools that cover exploratory and visualization tasks for Linked Data were one of the major goals focused in the LOD2 project. Tools that support those tasks are regarded as essential for the Web of Data, since they can act as a useroriented starting point for data customers. During the project, several development efforts were made, whose results either facil...

This note considers issues of principle that arise in applying so-called language modelling to different language and information processing tasks. Language modelling is familiar and effective for some tasks, and has been proposed and appears promising for others (see, e.g. Croft and Lafferty 2003). However attention has been more often focused on technical manipulation than on the underlying j...

We present a taxonomy of task by information structure for voice interfaces to web pages in an analogous effort to Shneiderman’s taxonomy for information visualization. Our goal is to develop guidelines for the development of voice navigation of web spaces not as a replacement for visual web browsing, but instead to support focused information seeking tasks such as known-item search and directe...