The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
We explore several different document representation models and two query expansion models for the task of recommending blogs to a user in response to a query. Blog relevance rank...
Jaime Arguello, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jamie Callan, J...
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Document Transformation techniques have been studied for decades. In this paper, a new approach for a significant improvement is presented based on using a new query expansion met...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...