Retrieval with Logical Imaging is derived from belief revision and provides a novel mechanism for estimating the relevance of a document through logical implication (i.e. P(q → ...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. van Rijsbergen
In a new model for answer retrieval, document collections are distilled offline into large repositories of facts. Each fact constitutes a potential direct answer to questions seek...
Current studies on the storage of XML data are focused on either the efficient mapping of XML data onto an existing RDBMS or the development of a native XML storage. Some native X...
This report outlines our participation in CLEF-IP's 2009 prior art search task. In the task's initial year our focus lay on the automatic generation of effective queries...
Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...