It is commonly believed that word segmentation accuracy is monotonically related to retrieval performance in Chinese information retrieval. In this paper we show that, for Chinese...
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick ...
Abstract—Recent progress in research fields such as Information Extraction and Information Retrieval enables the creation of systems providing better search experiences to web u...
Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Firan, Mihai George...
Empirical modeling of the score distributions associated with retrieved documents is an essential task for many retrieval applications. In this work, we propose modeling the releva...
Abstract. In its second year, the Interactive Track at INEX focused on addressing some fundamental issues of interactive XML retrieval: is element retrieval useful for searchers, w...
Query expansion is a well-known technique that has been shown to improve average retrieval performance. This technique has not been used in many operational systems because of the...