Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...
In this paper, we identify factors that affect machine translation (MT) of a source query for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and empirically evaluate the effect of ps...
Yan Qu, Alla N. Eilerman, Hongming Jin, David A. E...
Abstract. Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research field...
Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. T...
The THOMAS system is designed to make legislative information available to the general public over the Internet, and can be regarded as a prototypeof a government digitallibrary. ...
We present an efficient algorithm called the Quadtree Heuristic for identifying a list of similar terms for each unique term in a large document collection. Term similarity is de...