Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
Anchor text has been considered as a useful resource to complement the representation of target pages and is broadly used in web search. However, previous research only uses anchor...
Large collections of documents containing various types of multimedia, are made available to the WWW. Unfortunately, due to the un-structuredness of Internet environments it is ha...
We report on the CLEF 2006 WebCLEF track devoted to crosslingual web retrieval. We provide details about the retrieval tasks, the used topic set, and the results of WebCLEF partic...