Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
Search engines are powerful tools to find information on the Web. However, they commonly return a lot of irrelevant documents when the users’ queries are not specific enough. To...
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2008 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on query expansion using pro...