Relevance-based language models operate by estimating the probabilities of observing words in documents relevant (or pseudo relevant) to a topic. However, these models assume that ...
A lexical signature (LS) is a small set of terms derived from a document that capture the "aboutness" of that document. A LS generated from a web page can be used to disc...
Structured document retrieval makes use of document components as the basis of the retrieval process, rather than complete documents. The inherent relationships between these comp...
Jane Reid, Mounia Lalmas, Karen Finesilver, Morten...
Outline font technology has long been established as the standard way to represent typefaces, allowing characters to be represented independently of print size and resolution. Alt...
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...