—Despite the proliferation of work on XML keyword query, it remains open to support keyword query over probabilistic XML data. Compared with traditional keyword search, it is far...
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) solutions with regular Euclidean metric usually cannot achieve satisfactory performance due to the semantic gap challenge. Hence, rele...
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
Abstract. World wide web has gained a lot of prominence with respect to information retrieval and data delivery. With such a prolific growth, a user interested in a specific change...