1 The Decision Support Information Gathering System, Digs, uses influence diagrams to model user's decisions and to calculate the value of imperfect information for each avail...
Query expansion is a well-known technique that has been shown to improve average retrieval performance. This technique has not been used in many operational systems because of the...
Information retrieval systems are frequently required to handle long queries. Simply using all terms in the query or relying on the underlying retrieval model to appropriately wei...
Ranking Web search results has long evolved beyond simple bag-of-words retrieval models. Modern search engines routinely employ machine learning ranking that relies on exogenous r...
Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josif...
In this article, we present a model for transformation of resources in information supply. These transformations allow us to reason more flexibly about information supply, and cul...
Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Proper, Patrick van Bo...