As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...
The TREC 2003 web track consisted of both a non-interactive stream and an interactive stream. Both streams worked with the .GOV test collection. The non-interactive stream continu...
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Ross Wilkinson, Ming...
As the Internet grows explosively, search engines play a more and more important role for users in effectively accessing online information. Recently, it has been recognized that ...
Ming Ji, Jun Yan, Siyu Gu, Jiawei Han, Xiaofei He,...
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...