The structural features of XML components are an extra source of information that should be used in a contentoriented retrieval task on this type of documents. This paper explores...
In this short note we demonstrate the applicability of hyperlink downweighting by means of language model disagreement. The method filters out hyperlinks with no relevance to the ...
This paper focuses on a solution to better adapt ASR systems, whose language models (LM) are usually trained on topic-independent corpora, to new topics, in particular in the case...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves search quality by expanding the query using terms from high-ranking documents from an initial retrieval. Although PRF can often result in ...
Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko...
The quality of document content, which is an issue that is usually ignored for the traditional ad hoc retrieval task, is a critical issue for Web search. Web pages have a huge var...