The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to...
Nowadays we enter the Web 2.0 era where people’s participation is a key principle. In this context, collective annotations enable to share and discuss readers’ feedback with r...
Guillaume Cabanac, Max Chevalier, Claude Chrisment...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
Large volume public comment campaigns and web portals that encourage the public to customize form letters produce many near-duplicate documents, which increases processing and sto...