In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
This paper presents a Japanese information retrieval method using the dependency relationship between words and semantic and statistical information about them. Our method gives a...
This study explores the benefits of integrating knowledge representations in prior art patent retrieval. Key to the introduced approach is the utilization of human judgment availa...
Erik Graf, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas, Keith va...
: The aims of this paper are twofold. Our first aim is to compare results of the earlier Terabyte tracks to the Million Query track. We submitted a number of runs using different ...