Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
: In this paper, we document our efforts in participating to the TREC 2007 Legal track. We had multiple aims: First, to experiment with using different query formulations, trying t...
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Martijn Kooken, Nir Nu...
XML is a de-facto standard for exchanging and presenting information on the Web. However, XML data is also recognized as verbose since it heavily inflates the size of the data due ...
Like HTML, many XML documents are resident on native file systems. Since XML data is irregular and verbose, the disk space and the network bandwidth are wasted. To overcome the ve...
In this poster we describe alternative inverted index structures that reduce the time required to process queries, produce a higher query throughput and still return high quality ...
Paul Ferguson, Alan F. Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Pet...