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 ...
Users’ cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the fe...
Part numbers are widely used within an enterprise throughout the manufacturing process. The point of entry of such part numbers into this process is normally via a Bill of Materia...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
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...