Common measures of term importance in information retrieval (IR) rely on counts of term frequency; rare terms receive higher weight in document ranking than common terms receive. ...
This study investigated a relatively unexamined query type, queries composed of URLs. The extent, variation and user click-through behavior was examined to determine the intent be...
: The work of corporate finance professionals is information intensive. In spite of that the practices and motivations of their information preferences have been researched very li...
Using the 138,751 patents filed in 2006 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, coclassification analysis is pursued on the basis of three- and four-digit codes in the International ...
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...