This paper describes our novel retrieval model that is based on contexts of query terms in documents (i.e., document contexts). Our model is novel because it explicitly takes into...
Ho Chung Wu, Robert W. P. Luk, Kam-Fai Wong, K. L....
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Interactive query expansion (IQE) (c.f. Efthimiadis, 1996) is a potentially useful technique to help searchers formulate improved query statements, and ultimately retrieve better ...
Users of search engines express their needs as queries, typically consisting of a small number of terms. The resulting search engine query logs are valuable resources that can be ...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Seyed M. M. Tahaghog...
Recently, question series have become one focus of research in question answering. These series are comprised of individual factoid, list, and “other” questions organized arou...