Abstract. The focus of this paper is approaches to measuring similarity for application in content-based query evaluation. Rather than only comparing at the level of words, the iss...
XQuery, the standard query language for XML, is gaining popularity among users with a SQL background; indeed, formulating XQuery and SQL queries requires comparable skills. Howeve...
Abstract. We present an approach to increasing the effectiveness of rankedoutput retrieval systems that relies on graphical display and user manipulation of “views” of retrieva...
In the domain of biomedical publications, synonyms and homonyms are omnipresent and pose a great challenge for document retrieval systems. For this year's TREC Genomics Ad ho...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...