XML documents represent a middle range between unstructured data such as textual documents and fully structured data encoded in databases. Typically, information retrieval techniq...
Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Siv...
In this paper we extend the state-of-the-art in utilizing background knowledge for supervised classification by exploiting the semantic relationships between terms explicated in O...
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Marcos Kawazoe...
We describe DSPHERE1 - a decentralized system for crawling, indexing, searching and ranking of documents in the World Wide Web. Unlike most of the existing search technologies tha...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, Vaibhav Pa...
: This paper describes a new algorithm for merging the results of remote collections in a distributed information retrieval environment. The algorithm makes use only of the ranks o...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
This paper presents an approach for the Opinion Finding task at TREC 2008 Blog Track. For the Ad-hoc Retrieval subtask, we adopt language model to retrieve relevant documents. For...