This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
Abstract. With the amount of available information on the Web growing rapidly with each day, the need to automatically filter the information in order to ensure greater user effici...
Miha Grcar, Dunja Mladenic, Blaz Fortuna, Marko Gr...
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
The success of "infinite-inventory" retailers such as Amazon.com and Netflix has been ascribed to a "long tail" phenomenon. To wit, while the majority of their...
Andrei Z. Broder, Bo Pang, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Sh...