Inverse document frequency (IDF) is one of the most useful and widely used concepts in information retrieval. There have been various attempts to provide theoretical justification...
This paper presents a method for finding a specification page on the web for a given object (e.g., "Titanic") and its class label (e.g., "film"). A specificati...
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy in all retrieval models. However the performance of existing pseudo feedback meth...
There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...