We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
Term-weighting functions derived from various models of retrieval aim to model human notions of relevance more accurately. However, there is a lack of analysis of the sources of e...
In recent years, fuzzy logic has been applied successfully to a wide range of problems. This paper shows how it can be utilized in the area of spatial reasoning, in particular geo...
Content-addressability is a fundamental feature of human memory underlying many associative information retrieval tasks. In contrast to location-based memory devices, content-addre...
We argue for that taking into account semantic relations between words in the text can improve information retrieval performance. We implemented the process of information retrieva...