Capitalizing on the intuitive underlying assumptions of Language Modelling for Ad-Hoc Retrieval we present a novel approach that is capable of injecting the user’s context of th...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Cornelis Joost van ...
When we describe a Web page informally, we often use phrases like it looks like a newspaper site", there are several unordered lists" or it's just a collection of li...
Isabel F. Cruz, Slava Borisov, Michael A. Marks, T...
While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
The NIST Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) Evaluation expands its focus in 2008 to encompass the challenge of cross-document and cross-language global integration and reconciliat...
Stephanie Strassel, Mark A. Przybocki, Kay Peterso...
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, ...
Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson, Marcos Theophylact...