Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Traditional information search in which queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database is shifting towards a Web scenario in which exposed schemas ar...
Background: Currently there is a strong need for methods that help to obtain an accurate description of protein interfaces in order to be able to understand the principles that go...
Joan Teyra, Andreas Doms, Michael Schroeder, M. Te...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...