Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
We present a fast proximity query algorithm for haptic display of complex deformable models using a layered representation. Assuming that each solid model can be represented as a ...
Nico Galoppo, Miguel A. Otaduy, Paul Mecklenburg, ...
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
Search engines that support structured documents typically support structure created by the author (e.g., title, section), and may also support structure added by an annotation pr...