While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
We describe our submission to the TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track and the speech recognition and the information retrieval engines. We present SDR evaluation results ...
M. Siegler, Adam L. Berger, Michael J. Witbrock, A...
Scientific digital libraries serve complex and evolving research communities. Justifications for the development of scientific digital libraries include the desire to preserve sci...
J. Steven Hughes, Daniel J. Crichton, Chris Mattma...
Ranking and returning the most relevant results of a query is a popular paradigm in Information Retrieval. We discuss challenges and investigate several approaches to enable ranki...
We discuss a retrieval model in which the task is to complete a sentence, given an initial fragment, and given an application specific document collection. This model is motivate...