Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
York University participated in HARD and Genomics tracks this year. For both tracks, we used Okapi BSS (basic search system) as the basis. Our experiments mainly focused on exploi...
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Ming Zhong, Miao Wen
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Measuring the similarity between documents and queries has been extensively studied in information retrieval. However, there are a growing number of tasks that require computing th...
In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...