When research articles introduce new findings or concepts they typically relate them only to knowledge and domain concepts of immediate relevance. However, many domain concepts re...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
Web pages are usually highly structured documents. In some documents, content with different functionality is laid out in blocks, some merely supporting the main discourse. In ot...
The Dublin City University participation in the CLEF 2006 CL-SR task concentrated on exploring the combination of the multiple fields associated with the documents. This was based...
Gareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang, Adenike M. Lam-Adesi...