This paper describes the participation of Columbus Project of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in the GeoCLEF 2006 (a cross-language geographical retrieval track which is part of Cr...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful rela...
Christian Halaschek-Wiener, Boanerges Aleman-Meza,...
Abstract. Portal Catalogs is a popular means of searching for information on the Web. They provide querying and browsing capabilities on data organized in a hierarchy, on a categor...
Eleni G. Christodoulou, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos ...
Abstract. Information retrieval systems have traditionally been evaluated over absolute judgments of relevance: each document is judged for relevance on its own, independent of oth...
Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chi...
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...