It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
Abstract—Recent progress in research fields such as Information Extraction and Information Retrieval enables the creation of systems providing better search experiences to web u...
Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Firan, Mihai George...
A voice search system requires a speech interface that can correctly recognize spoken queries uttered by users. The recognition performance strongly relies on a robust language mo...
Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus
Abstract. Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research field...
Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. T...
Large-scale Parallel Web Search Engines (WSEs) needs to adopt a strategy for partitioning the inverted index among a set of parallel server nodes. In this paper we are interested ...