A medium-scale user study was carried out to investigate the usability of a concept-based query expansion support tool. The tool was fully integrated into the interface of an IR sy...
The Smart information retrieval project emphasizes completely automatic approaches to the understanding and retrieval of large quantities of text. We continue our work in TREC 3, ...
Chris Buckley, Gerard Salton, James Allan, Amit Si...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves search quality by expanding the query using terms from high-ranking documents from an initial retrieval. Although PRF can often result in ...
Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko...
The continually and high-rate growth of China's economy has attracted more and more international investors. These investors have an urgent need of identifying patterns in Chi...
Abstract. In this paper we study the performance of linguisticallymotivated conflation techniques for Information Retrieval in Spanish. In particular, we have studied the applicat...