Modeling text with topics is currently a popular research area in both Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (IR). Most of this research has focused on automatic methods thou...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
According to statistics, the rate of having cancer is relatively high for people in developing and developed countries. So cancer can be called as the enemy of human health. With ...
An automatic compound retrieval method is proposed to extract compounds within a text message. It uses n-gram mutual information, relative frequency count and parts of speech as t...