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 quality of document content, which is an issue that is usually ignored for the traditional ad hoc retrieval task, is a critical issue for Web search. Web pages have a huge var...
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
In the context of information retrieval, traditional collection selection algorithms have been widely studied. These algorithms utilize language models, a representation of the co...
Gary A. Monroe, James C. French, Allison L. Powell
One of the most important steps in text processing and information retrieval is stemming—reducing of words to stems expressing their base meaning, e.g., bake, baked, bakes, bakin...
Alexander F. Gelbukh, Mikhail Alexandrov, Sang-Yon...