Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Pseudo feedback is a commonly used technique to improve information retrieval performance. It assumes a few top-ranked documents to be relevant, and learns from them to improve th...
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
This paper presents a vector space model approach, for representing documents and queries, using concepts instead of terms and WordNet as a light ontology. This way, information o...
: TextWise LLC. participated in the TREC-7 Cross-Language Retrieval track using the CINDOR system, which utilizes a "conceptual interlingua" representation of documents a...
Anne Diekema, Farhad Oroumchian, Paraic Sheridan, ...