Methods for fusing document lists that were retrieved in response to a query often use retrieval scores (or ranks) of documents in the lists. We present a novel probabilistic fusi...
Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
Abstract. This paper presents first steps towards building a music information system like last.fm, but with the major difference that the data is automatically retrieved from the ...
Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Wid...
The widespread use of templates on the Web is considered harmful for two main reasons. Not only do they compromise the relevance judgment of many web IR and web mining methods suc...
Karane Vieira, Altigran Soares da Silva, Nick Pint...
Abstract. With increasing volumes of data, much effort has been devoted to finding the most suitable answer to an information need. However, in many domains, the question whether a...