As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
Retrieving information from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible manner and within a single (database) framework is still a challenge. In this paper we present several extensi...
Retrieval with Logical Imaging is derived from belief revision and provides a novel mechanism for estimating the relevance of a document through logical implication (i.e. P(q → ...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. van Rijsbergen
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Situational aspects are very helpful to decide relevance but they have often been left aside by Information Retrieval models. The standard logical approach to Information Retrieva...