In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...
Related entity finding is the task of returning a ranked list of homepages of relevant entities of a specified type that need to engage in a given relationship with a given sour...
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
SALSA is a link-based ranking algorithm that takes the result set of a query as input, extends the set to include additional neighboring documents in the web graph, and performs a...