A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
Applying Belief Revision logic to model adaptive information retrieval is appealing since it provides a rigorous theoretical foundation to model partiality and uncertainty inheren...
The World Wide Web provides a huge distributed web database. However, information in the web database is free formatted and unorganized. Traditional keyword-based retrieval approa...
H. L. Wang, W. K. Shih, C. N. Hsu, Y. S. Chen, Y. ...
Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...
We present a principled approach to the problem of connecting a controlled document authoring system with a knowledge base. We start by describingclosed-world authoring situations...