This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Information retrieval systems (IRSs) usually suffer from a low ability to recognize a same idea that is expressed in different forms. A way of improving these systems is to take ...
Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sé...
Previous research has taught us that the typical nonprofessional information seeker on the World Wide Web submits very short queries resulting in low-precision results. We show th...
Many techniques in the social sciences and graph theory deal with the problem of examining and analyzing patterns found in the underlying structure and associations of a group of ...
Jeremy Kubica, Andrew W. Moore, David Cohn, Jeff G...
The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...