The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-con...
In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital "O"), and as a domain-independe...
Recent work in deduplication has shown that collective deduplication of different attribute types can improve performance. But although these techniques cluster the attributes col...
This paper describes our novel retrieval model that is based on contexts of query terms in documents (i.e., document contexts). Our model is novel because it explicitly takes into...
Ho Chung Wu, Robert W. P. Luk, Kam-Fai Wong, K. L....
. When publishing documents on the web, the user needs to describe and classify her documents for the benefit of later retrieval and use. This paper presents an approach to semanti...