The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: For a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Forty-eight years ago Maron and Kuhns published their paper, ``On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval" (1960). This was the first paper to present a p...
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...