Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
According to the logical model of Information Retrieval (IR), the task of IR can be described as the extraction, from a given document base, of those documents d that, given a que...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
The aggregated structure of documents plays a key role in full-text, multimedia, and network Information Retrieval (IR). Considering aggregation provides new querying facilities a...
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
The structural features of XML components are an extra source of information that should be used in a contentoriented retrieval task on this type of documents. This paper explores...