: We participated in two tasks: Multi-8 two-years-on retrieval and Multi-8 results merging. For our multi-8 two-years-on retrieval work, simple multilingual ranked lists are first ...
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Abstract—Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich inform...
With the advent of the Web, search has become the prominent paradigm for information seeking, not only across the online space but also within enterprises. Search engine functiona...
Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Piero Fraterna...
We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...