Pseudo-relevance feedback, or query expansion, has been shown to improve retrieval performance in the adhoc retrieval task. In such a scenario, a few top-ranked documents are assu...
We develop a novel user-centric modeling technology, which can dynamically describe and update a person's expertise profile. In an enterprise environment, the technology can e...
Xiaodan Song, Belle L. Tseng, Ching-Yung Lin, Ming...
Knowledge-mapping tools enable users to quickly identify relevant information and expertise. This paper discusses a number of natural-language phenomena that limit the performance...
Anjo Anjewierden, Willem-Olaf Huijsen, Marjan Groo...
We describe an attempt to use word sense as an alternate text representation within an information retrieval system in order to enhance retrieval effectiveness. A performance comp...
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: For a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...