Locating useful information effectively from the World Wide Web (WWW) is of wide interest. This paper presents new results on a methodology of using the structures and hyperlinks ...
We analyse the kinematics of probabilistic term weights at retrieval time for di erent Information Retrieval models. We present four models based on di erent notions of probabilis...
Relevance Feedback has proven very effective for improving retrieval accuracy. A difficult yet important problem in all relevance feedback methods is how to optimally balance the...
Effective use of multimedia collections requires efficient and intuitive methods of searching and browsing. This work considers databases which store music and explores how these...
Syntactic analysis of search queries is important for a variety of information-retrieval tasks; however, the lack of annotated data makes training query analysis models difficult...
Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Ryan T. McDonald, Slav...