The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
Collaborative filtering uses a database about consumers’ preferences to make personal product recommendations and is achieving widespread success in both E-Commerce and Informat...
Kai Yu, Xiaowei Xu, Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Krieg...
Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
The application of document clustering to information retrieval has been motivated by the potential effectiveness gains postulated by the Cluster Hypothesis. The hypothesis states ...
New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. As outlined in [1], the gene...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...