Background: Advances in biotechnology and in high-throughput methods for gene analysis have contributed to an exponential increase in the number of scientific publications in thes...
We propose a method for supporting query refinement using topical term clusters. First, we propose a new term weighting method that can extract terms strongly related to a specifi...
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
— Results of queries by personal names often contain documents related to several people because of the namesake problem. In order to differentiate documents related to different...
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...