Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
Abstract—One of the first Multi-Language Information Retrieval (MLIR) systems was implemented in 1969 by Gerard Salton who enhanced his SMART system to retrieve multilingual doc...
Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, Eliza...
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...