Abstract. Many realistic user tasks involve the retrieval of specific entities instead of just any type of documents. Examples of information needs include ‘Countries where one ...
Arjen P. de Vries, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A....
Abstract—Available network information is an important factor in determining network performance. In this paper, we study the basic limits on the amount of network information th...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Since the proposition of Journal Impact Factor [1] in 1963, the classical citation-based ranking scheme has been a standard criterion to rank journals and conferences. However, the...
Zhixu Li, Xiaoyong Du, Hongyan Liu, Jun He, Xiaofa...