Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
Much of the literature on responsibility in the IT field addresses the responsibilities of members of the IT profession. In this paper, we investigate to what extent the responsibi...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
The increase in the use of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) makes the semistructured data more and more important on the Web. To exploit the full power of XML documents, a query l...
Recent times have seen a tremendous growth in mobile based data services that allow people to use Short Message Service (SMS) to access these data services. In a multilingual soci...
Danish Contractor, Govind Kothari, Tanveer A. Faru...