sets of research abstracts that may be retrieved by a digital library or search engine in response to a user query. y dissertation abstracts were selected as the sample domain in t...
Shiyan Ou, Christopher S. G. Khoo, Dion Hoe-Lian G...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
This paper describes/represents an approach to the design of an information retrieval of providing an search of users. The Next generation of information systems will rely on coll...
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...