This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for Internet-scale information retrieval and search systems because they require neither...
Although statistical characteristics of audio features are widely used for similarity measure in most of current audio analysis systems and have been proved to be effective, they ...
Automatically extracting keyphrases from documents is a task with many applications in information retrieval and natural language processing. Document retrieval can be biased towar...