Current crawler-based search engines usually return a long list of search results containing a lot of noise documents. By indexing collected documents on topic path in taxonomy, t...
HyPursuit is a new hierarchical network search engine that clusters hypertext documents to structure a given information space for browsing and search activities. Our content-link...
We investigate the topical structure of the set of documents used to expand a query in pseudorelevance feedback (PRF). We propose a coherence score to measure the relative topical...
Abstract. Machine learning techniques are increasingly being applied to problems in the domain of information retrieval and text mining. In this paper we present an application of ...
When applying blind relevance feedback for ad hoc document retrieval, is it possible to identify, a priori, the set of query terms that will most improve retrieval performance? Ca...