Inverse document frequency (IDF) is one of the most useful and widely used concepts in information retrieval. There have been various attempts to provide theoretical justification...
This work details the experiments carried out using the Indri search engine for the ad hoc retrieval task in the TREC 2007 Million Query Track. We investigate using proximity feat...
The core task of sponsored search is to retrieve relevant ads for the user’s query. Ads can be retrieved either by exact match, when their bid term is identical to the query, or...
Michael Bendersky, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josi...
Collaborative work environments for scientific knowledge have many applications in research as well as in education. Such systems already exist (e.g. Wikipedia and PlanetMath), b...
We examine two aspects concerning the influence of unidirectional links on routing performance in multihop wireless networks. In the first part of the paper, we evaluate the benef...