Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
Bursty features in text streams are very useful in many text mining applications. Most existing studies detect bursty features based purely on term frequency changes without takin...
Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Jing He, Dongdong Shan...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
This paper describes the experiments of the State University of New York at Buffalo in TREC 13. We participated in the Genomics track and submitted official runs to the Adhoc retri...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth, Rohini K. Sr...