Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
The paper proposes an approach to information retrieval based on the use of a structure (ontology) both for document (resp. query) indexing and query evaluating. The conceptual st...
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
The paper presents the S.E.A.L. query language and interpreter for entity-association queries that allows such queries to be expressed in a much simpler way than in SQL. S.E.A.L (...