Most of the Web-based methods for lexicon augmenting consist in capturing global semantic features of the targeted domain in order to collect relevant documents from the Web. We s...
Abstract. Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research field...
Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. T...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...