Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
Query translation for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) has gained increasing attention in the research area. Previous work mainly used machine translation systems, bilin...
Rong Hu, Weizhu Chen, Jian Hu, Yansheng Lu, Zheng ...
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...