In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
Currently most link-related applications treat all links in the same web page to be identical. One link-related application usually requires one certain property of hyperlinks but...
Mingliang Zhu, Weiming Hu, Ou Wu, Xi Li, Xiaoqin Z...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...