Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
Information retrieval is, in general, an iterative search process, in which the user often has several interactions with a retrieval system for an information need. The retrieval ...
: We participated in two tasks: Multi-8 two-years-on retrieval and Multi-8 results merging. For our multi-8 two-years-on retrieval work, simple multilingual ranked lists are first ...
XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potential...
Recent progress in information extraction technology has enabled a vast array of applications that rely on structured data that is embedded in natural-language text. In particular...