In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...
Current approaches to develop information extraction (IE) programs have largely focused on producing precise IE results. As such, they suffer from three major limitations. First, ...
Warren Shen, Pedro DeRose, Robert McCann, AnHai Do...
Information retrieval systems conventionally assess document relevance using the bag of words model. Consequently, relevance scores of documents retrieved for different queries a...
Deepak Agarwal, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Robert Hall, ...
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...