The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...
Query-independent features (also called document priors), such as the number of incoming links to a document, its Page-Rank, or the type of its associated URL, have been successfu...
Abstract When searching for information about historical events, queries are naturally formulated using temporal constraints. However, the structured temporal information needed to...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
In this work we compare different techniques to automatically find candidate web pages to substitute broken links. We extract information from the anchor text, the content of the p...
Word meaning disambiguation has always been an important problem in many computer science tasks, such as information retrieval and extraction. One of the problems, faced in automa...