This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
In this paper we describe our participation in the 2010 CLEF-IP Prior Art Retrieval task where we examined the impact of information in different sections of patent documents, nam...
For querying structured and semistructured data, data retrieval and document retrieval are two valuable and complementary techniques that have not yet been fully integrated. In thi...
As the number of components in XML documents is much larger than that of ‘flat’ documents, we believe it is essential to provide users of XML information retrieval systems wi...
: In information retrieval, data fusion is a technique for combining the outputs of more than one retrieval strategy which rank documents for retrieval. One of the observations oft...