Abstract. With the current method of query formation, a Question Answering system retrieves a set of documents that are similar to a question, while what is mostly required is a se...
Relevance feedback is the retrieval task where the system is given not only an information need, but also some relevance judgement information, usually from users' feedback f...
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...
This paper proposes a novel approach to measuring XML document similarity by taking into account the semantics between XML elements. The motivation of the proposed approach is to ...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...