Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Often scientists seek to search for articles on the Web related to a particular chemical. When a scientist searches for a chemical formula using a search engine today, she gets ar...
Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
The Internet and corporate intranets provide far more information than anybody can absorb. People use search engines to find the information they require. However, these systems t...
We apply a new active learning formulation to the problem of learning medical concepts from unstructured text. The new formulation is based on maximizing the mutual information th...
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...