Extracting information from web pages is an important problem; it has several applications such as providing improved search results and construction of databases to serve user qu...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, ...
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, G...
In this paper we explore the use of category information for ad hoc retrieval in Wikipedia. We show that techniques for entity ranking exploiting this category information can als...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...