An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
The focus of information retrieval evaluations, such as NIST's TREC evaluations (e.g. Voorhees 2003), is on evaluation of the information content of system responses. On the ...
Olga Babko-Malaya, Dan Hunter, Connie Fournelle, J...
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Although much has been written about various information integration technologies, little has been said regarding how to combine these technologies together to build an entire &qu...
Greg Barish, Craig A. Knoblock, Yi-Shin Chen, Stev...
Abstract. Too much information kills information. This common statement applies to huge databases, where state of the art search engines may retrieve hundreds of very similar docum...
Yann Landrin-Schweitzer, Pierre Collet, Evelyne Lu...