The core task of sponsored search is to retrieve relevant ads for the user’s query. Ads can be retrieved either by exact match, when their bid term is identical to the query, or...
Michael Bendersky, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josi...
This paper describes our experiments on the Geographical Query Parsing pilot-task for English at GeoCLEF 2007. Our system uses some modules of a Geographical Information Retrieval...
A key problem that arises when unstructured text is being queried is that of properly recognizing and exploiting geographical terms and entities. Here we describe a mechanism for ...
Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Ca...
The indexation of documents is a critical step of the information retrieval process and is often a manual task which highly depends on the indexer’s knowledge. We propose to imp...
Structured Information Retrieval is gaining a lot of interest in recent years, as this kind of information is becoming an invaluable asset for professional communities such as Sof...