This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
Online forums host a rich information exchange, often with contributions from many subject matter experts. In this work we evaluate algorithms for thread retrieval in a large and ...
This is the first year for the Centre for Interactive Systems Research participation of INEX. Based on a newly developed XML indexing and retrieval system on Okapi, we extend Robe...
Information retrieval is the selection of documents relevant to a query. Inverted index is the conventional way to store the index of the collection. Because of the large amounts ...