We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
We use Wikipedia articles to semantically inform the generation of query models. To this end, we apply supervised machine learning to automatically link queries to Wikipedia artic...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
In this paper, we have made an effort to propose approaches to find similar legal judgements by extending the popular techniques used in information retrieval and search engines...
Sushanta Kumar, P. Krishna Reddy, V. Balakista Red...