In this paper we analyze queries and sessions intended to satisfy children’s information needs using a large-scale query log. The aim of this analysis is twofold: i) To identify...
Sergio Duarte Torres, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pavel Serdy...
This paper studies the issue of conceptually indexing the blogosphere through the whole hierarchy of Wikipedia entries. This paper proposes how to link Wikipedia entries to blog f...
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
We present a novel approach that transforms the weighting task to a typical coarse-grained classification problem, aiming to assign appropriate weights for candidate expansion term...
Abstract— In this work, web-based metrics for semantic similarity computation between words or terms are presented and compared with the state-of-the-art. Starting from the funda...