We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...
In Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), a collection of documents is often pre-processed to form a sparse term-document matrix, followed by a computation of a low-rank approximation to...
Most Twitter search systems generally treat a tweet as a plain text when modeling relevance. However, a series of conventions allows users to tweet in structural ways using combin...
Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic, Ting W...
Abstract. The widespread adoption of XML necessitates structureaware systems that can effectively retrieve information from XML document collections. This paper reports on the par...
Jovan Pehcevski, James A. Thom, Seyed M. M. Tahagh...
Abstract This paper reports our evaluation of the accuracy of capturing a user’s intent in an informationseeking task. Specifically, we would like to assess how accurately a use...