Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
As online social networking emerges, there has been increased interest to utilize the underlying social structure as well as the available social information to improve search. In...
Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis, Sushruth...
On the Internet, users often encounter noise in the form of spelling errors or unknown words, however, dishonest, unreliable, or biased information also acts as noise that makes i...
Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Junta Mizuno, Yotaro ...
In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2008. Last year we used Entry Vocabulary Indexes and Thesaurus expansion approac...
We consider the problem of clustering Web image search results. Generally, the image search results returned by an image search engine contain multiple topics. Organizing the resu...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Ji-R...