The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...
Documents, such as those seen on Wikipedia and Folksonomy, have tended to be assigned with multiple topics as a meta-data. Therefore, it is more and more important to analyze a re...
This paper presents a probabilistic relational modelling (implementation) of the major probabilistic retrieval models. Such a high-level implementation is useful since it supports ...
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
Document fields, such as the title or the headings of a document, offer a way to consider the structure of documents for retrieval. Most of the proposed approaches in the literatu...