Abstract. Term weighting is one of the most important aspects of modern Web retrieval systems. The weight associated with a given term in a document shows the importance of the ter...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
With the worldwide growth of the Internet, research on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) is being paid much attention. Existing CLIR approaches based on query translatio...
Current-day crawlers retrieve content only from the publicly indexable Web, i.e., the set of Web pages reachable purely by following hypertext links, ignoring search forms and pag...
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...