We introduce a novel approach to expert finding based on multi-step relevance propagation from documents to related candidates. Relevance propagation is modeled with an absorbing ...
Abstract. Most Information Retrieval models take documents as Bagof-Words and are thereby bound to the language of the documents. In this paper, we present an approach using Linked...
— Results of queries by personal names often contain documents related to several people because of the namesake problem. In order to differentiate documents related to different...
In this paper we present a new document representation model based on implicit user feedback obtained from search engine queries. The main objective of this model is to achieve be...
We consider the problem of efficiently producing ranked results for keyword search queries over hyperlinked XML documents. Evaluating keyword search queries over hierarchical XML ...
Lin Guo, Feng Shao, Chavdar Botev, Jayavel Shanmug...