Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
Most geographic information retrieval systems depend on the detection and disambiguation of place names in documents, assuming that the documents with a specific geographic scope ...
MNIS-TextWise Labs participated in the TREC-9 Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. The focus of our research for this participation has been on rapidly adding Chine...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Steve Rowe, Maurice Forrester, Par...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves search quality by expanding the query using terms from high-ranking documents from an initial retrieval. Although PRF can often result in ...
Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko...
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...