The search of Web resources is a very important topic due to the huge amount of valuable information available in the WWW. Standard search engines can be a great help but they are ...
Usually, a Digital Library (DL) is an information resource where users may submit queries to satisfy their daily information need. The CYCLADES system envisages a DL additionally a...
Due to the popularity of mobile devices, more and more commercial applications have been developed on these devices. While commercial applications are mostly backed by relational ...
Van T. K. Tran, Raymond K. Wong, William K. Cheung...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
: Information retrieval tries to identify relevant documents for an information need. The problems that an IR system should deal with include document indexing (which tries to extr...