Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun ...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
In this paper we show the usefulness and feasibility of applying conventional SQL queries for analyzing a wide spectrum of data streams. As application area we have chosen the ana...
Andreas Behrend, Christian Dorau, Rainer Manthey, ...
In this paper we introduce a new M-tree building method, utilizing the classic idea of forced reinsertions. In case a leaf is about to split, some distant objects are removed from...
Documents, especially long ones, may contain very diverse passages related to different topics. Passages Retrieval approaches have shown that, in most cases, there is a great pote...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...