Prior research into search system scalability has primarily addressed query processing efficiency [1, 2, 3] or indexing efficiency [3], or has presented some arbitrary system arch...
We explore the revenue capabilities of truthful, monotone (“fair”) allocation and pricing functions for resource-constrained auction mechanisms within a general framework that ...
In the context of information retrieval, traditional collection selection algorithms have been widely studied. These algorithms utilize language models, a representation of the co...
Gary A. Monroe, James C. French, Allison L. Powell
We examine the issues of combining multiple query representations in a single IR engine. Differing query representations are used to retrieve different documents. Thus, when combi...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen
An overwhelming number of legal documents is available in digital form. However, most of the texts are usually only provided in a semi-structured form, i.e. the documents are stru...