In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2003 Genomics Track and the Robust Track. A common theme that we explored is the robustness of a basic language modeling retri...
Researchers spent a large amount of their time searching through an ever increasing number of scientific articles. Although users of scientific search engines prefer the ranking o...
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
Pinpoint is a promising first step towards using a rich model of task context in proactive and dynamic IR systems. Pinpoint allows a user to navigate decision tree representations...
Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Irava...
Concurrent Collections (CnC)[8] is a declarative parallel language that allows the application developer to express their parallel application as a collection of high-level comput...