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...
— Often document dissemination is limited to a “need to know” basis so as to better maintain organizational trade secrets. Retrieving documents that are off-topic to a user...
In this paper we report on a study of implicit feedback models for unobtrusively tracking the information needs of searchers. Such models use relevance information gathered from se...
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsberge...
We report experiments on the use of standard natural language processing (NLP) tools for the analysis of music lyrics. A significant amount of music audio has lyrics. Lyrics enco...
Jose P. G. Mahedero, Alvaro Martinez, Pedro Cano, ...
An increasing number of databases are becoming Web accessible through form-based search interfaces, and many of these sources are database-driven E-commerce sites. It is a daunting...