York University participated in HARD and Genomics tracks this year. For both tracks, we used Okapi BSS (basic search system) as the basis. Our experiments mainly focused on exploi...
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Ming Zhong, Miao Wen
Just as the link structure of the web is a critical component in today's web search, complex relationships (i.e., the different ways the dots are connected) will be an import...
Objects like road networks, CAD/CAM components, electrical or electronic circuits, molecules, can be represented as graphs, in many modern applications. In this paper, we propose ...
We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of “...
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...