Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...
Semantic similarity between words or phrases is frequently used to find matching correlations between search queries and documents when straightforward matching of terms fails. Th...
Classical retrieval models support content-oriented searching for documents using a set of words as data model. However, in hypertext and database applications we want to consider...
Information theory provides a range of useful methods to analyse probability distributions and these techniques have been successfully applied to measure information flow and the ...
Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Tom Chothia, Apratim...
Abstract. Terms which are not explicitly mentioned in the text of a document receive often a minor role in current retrieval systems. In this work we connect the management of such...