Document length normalisation is known to be a difficult problem in IR, as tuning is often needed to overcome the collection dependence problem known to affect many normalisation s...
A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of s...
This paper describes the experiments conducted in the ad-hoc retrieval task of the Genomic track at TREC 2004. Different query expansion techniques based on the addition of keywor...
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
We study the expressiveness of a positive fragment of path queries, denoted Path+ , on node-labeled trees documents. The expressiveness of Path+ is studied from two angles. First, ...
Yuqing Wu, Dirk Van Gucht, Marc Gyssens, Jan Pared...