The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
Abstract. Web 2.0, also known as the Social Web, marks a new philosophy where users are both the main actors and the content producers: users write blogs and comments, they tag, li...
Paolo Coppola, Raffaella Lomuscio, Stefano Mizzaro...
The paper presents an approach to combine knowledge from memory and brain sciences with information retrieval research in the design of Web agents. An information retrieval agent f...
We perform a clustering of the Chilean Web Graph using a local fitness measure, optimized by simulated annealing, and compare the obtained cluster distribution to that of two mod...
The purpose of extractive summarization is to automatically select a number of indicative sentences, passages, or paragraphs from the original document according to a target summa...