Abstract. While the Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval provides the basis for formal models, it makes a very strong assumption regarding the dependence between...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
We present an approach to information retrieval based on context distance and morphology. Context distance is a measure we use to assess the closeness of word meanings. This conte...
Hierarchic document clustering has been widely applied to Information Retrieval (IR) on the grounds of its potential improved effectiveness over inverted file search. However, pre...
Anastasios Tombros, Robert Villa, C. J. van Rijsbe...
Documents are recommended by computer-based systems normally according to their prominence in the document reference network. Based on the requirements identified in a concrete u...
Recent work has demonstrated that the assessment of pairwise object similarity can be approached in an axiomatic manner using information theory. We extend this concept specifica...