We focus on the task of target detection in automatic link generation with Wikipedia, i.e., given an N-gram in a snippet of text, find the relevant Wikipedia concepts that explai...
This paper proposes a demo of the TopX search engine, an extensive framework for unified indexing, querying, and ranking of large collections of unstructured, semistructured, and ...
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
This paper introduces the notion of temporally constrained ranked retrieval, which, given a query and a time constraint, produces the best possible ranked list within the specifi...