This paper is concerned with relevance ranking in search, particularly that using term dependency information. It proposes a novel and unified approach to relevance ranking using ...
We present a sound and complete calculus for causal relevance that uses Pearl's functional causal models as semantics. The calculus consists of axioms and rules of inference ...
The quantified relevant logic RQ is given a new semantics in which a formula xA is true when there is some true proposition that implies all x-instantiations of A. Formulae are mo...
We explore the use of eye movements as a source of implicit relevance feedback information. We construct a controlled information retrieval experiment where the relevance of each t...
This paper introduces a statistical model for query-relevant summarization: succinctly characterizing the relevance of a document to a query. Learning parameter values for the pro...