We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...
This paper presents a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). Several custom query construction, expansion and translation ...
David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barriè...
Standard IR systems can process queries such as “web NOT internet”, enabling users who are interested in arachnids to avoid documents about computing. The documents retrieved ...
Abstract Searching for entities is an emerging task in Information Retrieval for which the goal is finding well defined entities instead of documents matching the query terms. In t...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...