One aspect in which retrieving named entities is different from retrieving documents is that the items to be retrieved – persons, locations, organizations – are only indirect...
Collaborative research has been increasingly popular and important in academic circles. However, there is no open platform available for scholars or scientists to effectively dis...
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...