Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...
This research investigated the application of techniques successfully used in previous information retrieval research, to the more challenging area of medical informatics. It was ...
Andrea L. Houston, Hsinchun Chen, Bruce R. Schatz,...
Semantic similarity between words or phrases is frequently used to find matching correlations between search queries and documents when straightforward matching of terms fails. Th...
Translingual information retrieval (TLIR) consists of providing a query in one language and searching document collections in one or more di erent languages. This paper introduces...
Yiming Yang, Jaime G. Carbonell, Ralf D. Brown, Ro...
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...