We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
To carry ecologically-relevant biodiversity research, one must collect chunks of information on species and their habitats from a large number of institutions and correlate them us...
Knowing the intent of a search query allows for more intelligent ways of retrieving relevant search results. Most of the recent work on automatic detection of query intent uses su...
Edith Law, Anton Mityagin, David Maxwell Chickerin...
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yans...
This paper presents the method for retrieving and summarizing changes in topics from online resources. Users often want to know what are the major changes in their areas of intere...