Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
Web image search has been explored and developed in academic as well as commercial areas for over a decade. To measure the similarity between Web images and user queries, most of ...
Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Lei Zhang, Wei-Yin...
The set of references that typically appear toward the end of journal articles is sometimes, though not always, a field in bibliographic (citation) databases. But even if referenc...
Real-world datasets exhibit a complex dependency structure among the data attributes. Learning this structure is a key task in automatic statistics configuration for query optimi...
—We present an information retrieval model for combining evidence from concept-based semantics, term statistics, and context for improving search precision of genomics literature...