Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Exploiting the structure of a document allows for more powerful information retrieval techniques. In this article a basic approach is discussed for the retrieval of XML document f...