This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant inf...
With the emergence of applications that require content-based similarity retrieval, techniques to support such a retrieval paradigm over database systems have emerged as a critica...
Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Kaushik Chakrabarti, ...
In this paper, we investigate the difference between Wikipedia and Web link structure with respect to their value as indicators of the relevance of a page for a given topic of re...
This paper gives an overview of the INEX 2007 Ad Hoc Track. The main purpose of the Ad Hoc Track was to investigate the value of the internal document structure (as provided by the...