Abstract. This paper proposes an expert peering system for information exchange. Our objective is to develop a real-time search engine for an online community where users can ask e...
— One of the central issues in Learning to Rank (L2R) for Information Retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures ...
Named entity recognition is important for semantically oriented retrieval tasks, such as question answering, entity retrieval, biomedical retrieval, trend detection, and event and...
Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Maarten Mar...
We present a principled methodology for filtering news stories by formal measures of information novelty, and show how the techniques can be used to custom-tailor newsfeeds based ...
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems offer an efficient means of data sharing among a dynamically changing set of a large number of autonomous nodes. Each node in a p2p system is connected...