Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...
Most text analysis is designed to deal with the concept of a “document”, namely a cohesive presentation of thought on a unifying subject. By contrast, individual nodes on the ...
We study methods to initialize or bias different clustering methods using prior information about the "importance" of a keyword w.r.t. the whole document collection or a...
Abstract. Term weighting is one of the most important aspects of modern Web retrieval systems. The weight associated with a given term in a document shows the importance of the ter...
Information Retrieval systems can be improved by exploiting context information such as user and document features. This article presents a model based on overlapping probabilistic...