Large and complex graphs representing relationships among sets of entities are an increasingly common focus of interest in data analysis--examples include social networks, Web gra...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
Statistical language modeling (SLM) has been used in many different domains for decades and has also been applied to information retrieval (IR) recently. Documents retrieved using...
Rule-based information extraction from text is increasingly being used to populate databases and to support structured queries on unstructured text. Specification of suitable info...
Bin Liu 0002, Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, H. V. ...
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...