Proximity of query terms in a document is an important criterion in IR. However, no investigation has been made to determine the most useful term sequences for which proximity sho...
Jing Bai, Yi Chang, Hang Cui, Zhaohui Zheng, Gordo...
The contribution of this paper includes three folders: (1) To introduce a topic-oriented query expansion model based on the Information Bottleneck theory that classify terms into ...
In ongoing research, a collaborative peer network application is being proposed to address the scalability limitations of centralized search engines. Here we introduce a local ada...
Mobile devices will become an important platform for Internet access. Due to size constraints, in many circumstances speech is the most desirable mode of input. We have developed ...
In web search, recency ranking refers to ranking documents by relevance which takes freshness into account. In this paper, we propose a retrieval system which automatically detect...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Mishne,...