Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
Web track results are presented. A software project, IRTools, is described. IRTools is intended to enable information retrieval (IR) experimentation by incorporating methods for m...
The importance of named entities in information retrieval and knowledge management has recently brought interest in characterizing semantic relationships between entities. In this...
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
This paper addresses several problems associated with the specification of Web searches, and the retrieval, filtering, and rating of Web pages in order to improve the relevance, pr...