Although commonly used in both commercial and experimental information retrieval systems, thesauri have not demonstrated consistent bene ts for retrieval performance, and it is di...
Given a set of keyphrases, we analyze how Web queries with these phrases can be formed that, taken altogether, return a specified number of hits. The use case of this problem is a ...
We are interested in retrieving information from conversational speech corpora, such as call-center data. This data comprises spontaneous speech conversations with low recording q...
Abstract. Citation indexes are valuable tools for research, in part because they provide a means with which to measure the relative impact of articles in a collection of scientifi...
The majority of the current information retrieval models weight the query concepts (e.g., terms or phrases) in an unsupervised manner, based solely on the collection statistics. I...