The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...
Techniques for being able to automatically identify acronym patterns are very important for enhancing a multitude of applications that rely upon search. This task is challenging, d...
We propose a language-model-based ranking approach for SPARQLlike queries on entity-relationship graphs. Our ranking model supports exact matching, approximate structure matching,...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems utilize the logical structure of XML documents for retrieving relevant elements. From a practical point of view, displaying the search r...