In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2006. This year we are not using the tools for thesaurus-based query expansion a...
We show that incorporating user behavior data can significantly improve ordering of top results in real web search setting. We examine alternatives for incorporating feedback into...
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Compression of term frequency lists and very long document-id lists within an inverted file search engine are examined. Several compression schemes are compared including Elias γ...
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...