In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Hierarchic document clustering has been widely applied to Information Retrieval (IR) on the grounds of its potential improved effectiveness over inverted file search. However, pre...
Anastasios Tombros, Robert Villa, C. J. van Rijsbe...
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
Blog/news search engines are very important channels to reach information about the real-time happenings. In this paper, we study the popular queries collected over one year perio...