: When one tries to use the Web as a dictionary or encyclopedia, entering some single term into a search engine, the highly-ranked pages in the result can include irrelevant or use...
Language modeling is an effective and theoretically attractive probabilistic framework for text information retrieval. The basic idea of this approach is to estimate a language mo...
Traditional information retrieval systems aim at satisfying most users for most of their searches, leaving aside the context in which the search takes place. We propose to model tw...
Nathalie Hernandez, Josiane Mothe, Claude Chrismen...
Marking up queries with annotations such as part-of-speech tags, capitalization, and segmentation, is an important part of many approaches to query processing and understanding. D...
This overview introduces the aim of the SMUC 2010 workshop, as well as the list of papers presented in the workshop. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Systems]: ...