We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
The contribution of this paper includes three folders: (1) To introduce a topic-oriented query expansion model based on the Information Bottleneck theory that classify terms into ...
An unstructured peer network application was proposed to address the query forwarding problem of distributed search engines and scalability limitations of centralized search engin...
In web search, recency ranking refers to ranking documents by relevance which takes freshness into account. In this paper, we propose a retrieval system which automatically detect...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Mishne,...
In this poster, we present an information extraction engine for web-based forums. The engine analyzes the HTML files crawled from web forums, deduces the wrapper (template) of the...
Hanny Yulius Limanto, Nguyen Ngoc Giang, Vo Tan Tr...