Documentsretrieved in responseto a user's query shouldreflect the intention of the user. Keyword searchesare not sufficient to accomplishthis task. This paper considersLatent...
In recent years, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been recognized as an effective tool for Information Retrieval in text documents. The level of "granularity" in LSI (...
In this paper, we present the results of a project that seeks to transform low-level features to a higher level of meaning. This project concerns a technique, latent semantic inde...
Previous research has taught us that the typical nonprofessional information seeker on the World Wide Web submits very short queries resulting in low-precision results. We show th...
Web track results are presented. A software project, IRTools, is described. IRTools is intended to enable information retrieval (IR) experimentation by incorporating methods for m...