Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
To date, few attempts have been made to develop and validate methods for automatic evaluation of linguistic quality in text summarization. We present the first systematic assessme...
New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we pre...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon P...
This paper introduces a general framework for the use of translation probabilities in cross-language information retrieval based on the notion that information retrieval fundament...
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...