Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Generating alternative queries, also known as query suggestion, has long been proved useful to help a user explore and express his information need. In many scenarios, such sugges...
Having seen a news title "Alba denies wedding reports", how do we infer that it is primarily about Jessica Alba, rather than about weddings or reports? We probably reali...
The difficulty with information retrieval for OCR documents lies in the fact that OCR documents comprise of a significant amount of erroneous words and unfortunately most informat...
A new technique to locate content-representing words for a given document image using representation of character shapes is described. A character shape code representation define...