In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
In recent years, statistical language models are being proposed as alternative to the vector space model. Viewing documents as language samples introduces the issue of defining a...
The domain-specific track evaluates retrieval models for structured scientific bibliographic collections in English, German and Russian. Documents contain elements (title, abstrac...
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
Abstract. Users often search for entities instead of documents and in this setting are willing to provide extra input, in addition to a query, such as category information and exam...