We study the problem of efficiently computing diverse query results in online shopping applications, where users specify queries through a form interface that allows a mix of stru...
Erik Vee, Utkarsh Srivastava, Jayavel Shanmugasund...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu,...
: The explosive growth of the World Wide Web, and the resulting information overload, has led to a miniexplosion in World Wide Web search engines. This mini-explosion, in turn, led...