The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
Large scale digitization projects have been conducted at the Internet Archive digital library to preserve cultural artifacts and to provide permanent access. The increasing amount...
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
The ability to utilize and benefit from today's explosion of social media sites depends on providing tools that allow users to productively participate. In order to participa...
Marc Smith, Vladimir Barash, Lise Getoor, Hady Wir...
Despite the many research efforts invested recently in peerto-peer search engines, none of the proposed system has reached the level of quality and efficiency of their centralized...
Pascal Felber, Toan Luu, Martin Rajman, Etienne Ri...