Modern techniques for distributed information retrieval use a set of documents sampled from each server, but these samples have been underutilised in server selection. We describe...
Organizing large document collections for finding information easily and quickly has always been an important user requirement. This paper describes a flexible and powerful dynami...
In this paper, we propose a graph-based approach to constructing a multilingual association dictionary from Wikipedia, in which we exploit two kinds of links in Wikipedia articles...
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...