Proximity of query terms in a document is an important criterion in IR. However, no investigation has been made to determine the most useful term sequences for which proximity sho...
Jing Bai, Yi Chang, Hang Cui, Zhaohui Zheng, Gordo...
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...
Significant efforts have focused in the past years on bringing large amounts of metadata online and the success of these efforts can be seen by the impressive number of web site...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Web pages may be organized, indexed, searched, and navigated along several different feature dimensions. We investigate different approaches to discovering geographic context for ...