Background: Keyword searching through PubMed and other systems is the standard means of retrieving information from Medline. However, ad-hoc retrieval systems do not meet all of t...
Graham L. Poulter, Daniel L. Rubin, Russ B. Altman...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
Ranking microblogs, such as tweets, as search results for a query is challenging, among other things because of the sheer amount of microblogs that are being generated in real time...
The classical (ad hoc) document retrieval problem has been traditionally approached through ranking according to heuristically developed functions (such as tf.idf or bm25) or gene...
Anchor text has been shown to be effective in ranking[6] and a variety of information retrieval tasks on web pages. Some authors have expanded on anchor text by using the words ar...