Abstract. There is a common availability of classification terms in online text collections and digital libraries, such as manually assigned keywords or key-phrases from a controll...
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...
The purpose of this paper is to apply and evaluate the bibliometric method Bradfordizing for information retrieval (IR) experiments. Bradfordizing is used for generating core docu...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to...