Abstract. It is well known that pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves the retrieval performance of Information Retrieval (IR) systems in general. However, a recent study by Cao ...
Common measures of term importance in information retrieval (IR) rely on counts of term frequency; rare terms receive higher weight in document ranking than common terms receive. ...
The success of personal information agents depends on their ability to provide task-relevant information. This paper presents WordSieve, a new algorithm that generates context des...
Information retrieval systems conventionally assess document relevance using the bag of words model. Consequently, relevance scores of documents retrieved for different queries a...
Deepak Agarwal, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Robert Hall, ...
Diversity has been heavily motivated in the information retrieval literature as an objective criterion for result sets in search and recommender systems. Perhaps one of the most w...