Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have been studied as a method of capturing user intent and improving retrieval effectiveness. The evaluation of these techniques...
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by the Cheshire (Berkeley) Group for the CLEF Adhoc-TEL 2009 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). Recognizing that man...
Abstract. Humans can associate vision and language modalities and thus generate mental imagery, i.e. visual images, from linguistic input in an environment of unlimited inflowing i...
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...