In this paper, we explore the use of Random Forests (RFs) in the structured language model (SLM), which uses rich syntactic information in predicting the next word based on words ...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
We consider the following autocompletion search scenario: imagine a user of a search engine typing a query; then with every keystroke display those completions of the last query wo...
Holger Bast, Christian Worm Mortensen, Ingmar Webe...
Abstract. We present a new analysis of the well-known family of multiplicative hash functions, and improved deterministic algorithms for selecting "good" hash functions. ...
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 ...