Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis algorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HI...
The state of the art in visual object retrieval from large databases is achieved by systems that are inspired by text retrieval. A key component of these approaches is that local ...
James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef S...
: This paper presents the results of our team in the Genomics and Blog tracks in TREC 2007. We used the language model implementation provided by Indri for both tracks. For the BLO...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Ying Sun, Jianqiang Wang, Hongfang...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...