The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-con...
ct 9 In this paper, a new novelty detection approach based on the identification of sentence level information patterns is 10 proposed. First, ``novelty'' is redefined ba...
Topic distillation aims at finding key resources which are high-quality pages for certain topics. With analysis in non-content features of key resources, a pre-selection method is ...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...