Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
ct 7 Social animals or insects in nature often exhibit a form of emergent collective behavior known as flocking. In this paper, 8 we present a novel Flocking based approach for doc...
We propose an unsupervised method for detecting spam documents from Web page data, based on equivalence relations on strings. We propose 3 measures for quantifying the alienness (...
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
The information access and retrieval capabilities provided by several conventional search engines, while improving upon traditional techniques, are lacking in supporting conceptua...