Domain specific terminologies represent important concepts when students study a subject. If the sentences which describe important concepts related to a terminology can be accesse...
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
We propose a simple method for converting many standard measures of retrieval performance into metasearch algorithms. Our focus is both on the analysis of retrieval measures thems...
We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...
In the “query-by-humming” problem, we attempt to retrieve a specific song from a target set based on a sung query. Recent evaluations of query-by-humming systems show that th...