Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
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...
Retrieval accuracy can be improved by considering which document type should be filtered out and which should be ranked higher in the result list. Hence, document type can be used...
We approached the problem as learning how to order documents by estimated relevance with respect to a user query. Our support vector machines based classifier learns from the rele...
Dmitri Roussinov, Weiguo Fan, Fernando A. Das Neve...