Despite the many research efforts invested recently in peerto-peer search engines, none of the proposed system has reached the level of quality and efficiency of their centralized...
Pascal Felber, Toan Luu, Martin Rajman, Etienne Ri...
Learning a good ranking function plays a key role for many applications including the task of (multimedia) information retrieval. While there are a few rank learning methods availa...
Almost any information you might want is becoming available on-line. The problem is how to find what you need. One strategy to improve access to existing information sources, is i...
According to the logical model of Information Retrieval (IR), the task of IR can be described as the extraction, from a given document base, of those documents d that, given a que...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
This paper proposes a word sense language model based method for information retrieval. This method, differing from most of traditional ones, combines word senses defined in a thes...