Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Traditional web link-based ranking schemes use a single score to measure a page’s authority without concern of the community from which that authority is derived. As a result, a...
Individuals often use search engines to return to web pages they have previously visited. This behaviour, called refinding, accounts for about 38% of all queries. While researcher...
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...