Abstract. In this paper we propose the clustering of top-ranking sentences (TRS) for effective information access. Top-ranking sentences are selected by a query-biased sentence ex...
Retrieval systems rank documents according to their retrieval status values (RSV) if these are monotonously increasing with the probability of relevance of documents. In this work,...
Advances in search technology have meant that search systems can now offer assistance to users beyond simply retrieving a set of documents. For example, search systems are now cap...
Incorporating background knowledge into data mining algorithms is an important but challenging problem. Current approaches in semi-supervised learning require explicit knowledge p...
Samah Jamal Fodeh, William F. Punch, Pang-Ning Tan
Monitoring user-system performance in interactive search is a challenging task. Traditional measures of retrieval evaluation, based on recall and precision, are not of any use in ...
Liudmila V. Boldareva, Arjen P. de Vries, Djoerd H...