Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
This paper proposes an algorithm called Imprecise Spectrum Analysis (ISA) to carry out fast dimension reduction for document classification. ISA is designed based on the one-sided...
Hu Guan, Bin Xiao, Jingyu Zhou, Minyi Guo, Tao Yan...
Retrieving entities instead of just documents has become an important task for search engines. In this paper we study entity retrieval for news applications, and in particular the...
Gianluca Demartini, Malik Muhammad Saad Missen, Ro...
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...
Complex search tasks that utilize information from several data sources, are answered by integrating the results of distinct basic search queries. In such integration, each basic ...