Relevance Feedback is an important way to enhance retrieval quality by integrating relevance information provided by a user. In XML retrieval, feedback engines usually generate an ...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
According to a recent survey made by Nielsen NetRatings, searching on news articles is one of the most important activity online. Indeed, Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others have p...
Gianna M. Del Corso, Antonio Gulli, Francesco Roma...
Queries over XML documents challenge search engines to return the most relevant XML components that satisfy the query concepts. In a previous work[6] we described an algorithm to ...
In this work we compare different techniques to automatically find candidate web pages to substitute broken links. We extract information from the anchor text, the content of the p...