This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
How to measure and model the similarity between different music items is one of the most fundamental yet challenging research problems in music information retrieval. This paper ...
Bingjun Zhang, Qiaoliang Xiang, Ye Wang, Jialie Sh...
Although various visualization techniques have been proposed for information retrieval tasks, most of them are based on a single strategy for viewing and navigating through the in...
Toshiyuki Masui, Mitsuru Minakuchi, George R. Bord...
The paper introduces a query translation model that re ects the structure of the cross-language information retrieval task. The model is based on a structured bilingual dictionary...