It has been widely observed that search queries are composed in a very different style from that of the body or the title of a document. Many techniques explicitly accounting for...
This paper describes the methods we developed for the three tasks of the TREC Genomics Track, i.e., ad hoc retrieval, triage, and annotation tasks. For the ad hoc retrieval task, ...
Kazuhiro Seki, James C. Costello, Vasanth R. Singa...
In this paper, we study the problem of effective keyword search over XML documents. We begin by introducing the notion of Valuable Lowest Common Ancestor (VLCA) to accurately and ...
Multimedia data has become readily available from a variety of resources, such as the Web, to users (ranging from naive to sophisticated) who need to select and to present the dat...
Background: The evaluation of information retrieval techniques has traditionally relied on human judges to determine which documents are relevant to a query and which are not. Thi...