The dominant existing routing strategies employed in peerto-peer(P2P) based information retrieval(IR) systems are similarity-based approaches. In these approaches, agents depend o...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
In this paper, an efficient method for language model lookahead probability generation is presented. Traditional methods generate language model look-ahead (LMLA) probabilities fo...
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
Wireless sensor networks have mainly been designed for information-collecting purposes, such as habitat monitoring, product process tracing, battlefield surveillance, etc. In orde...