Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
An under-explored question in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is to what degree the performance of CLIR methods depends on the availability of high-quality translation...
In this work we compare different techniques to automatically find candidate web pages to substitute broken links. We extract information from the anchor text, the content of the p...
The intent-oriented search diversification methods developed in the field so far tend to build on generative views of the retrieval system to be diversified. Core algorithm compon...
With the page explosion of WWW, how to cover more useful information with limited storage and computation resources becomes more and more important in web IR research. Using web p...