In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
Using content-specific models to guide information retrieval and extraction can provide richer interfaces to endusers for both understanding the context of news events and navigat...
Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kennet...
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
Web forums have become an important data resource for many web applications, but extracting structured data from unstructured web forum pages is still a challenging task due to bo...
Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Yida Wang, Jun Zhu, Lei ...
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...