XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potential...
: We participated in two tasks: Multi-8 two-years-on retrieval and Multi-8 results merging. For our multi-8 two-years-on retrieval work, simple multilingual ranked lists are first ...
This paper describes a method, using Genetic Programming, to automatically determine term weighting schemes for the vector space model. Based on a set of queries and their human de...
We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...
There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...