In this contribution, a fuzzy-set-based information retrieval model is considered. First, we show that the retrieval mechanism of such a retrieval model can be defined in terms of ...
Search engine logs are an emerging new type of data that offers interesting opportunities for data mining. Existing work on mining such data has mostly attempted to discover knowl...
Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
The impact of using phrases as content representation for documents and for queries has generally been accepted as a desirable feature in information retrieval systems because phr...