Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Generative models such as statistical language modeling have been widely studied in the task of expert search to model the relationship between experts and their expertise indicat...
Queries over XML documents challenge search engines to return the most relevant XML components that satisfy the query concepts. In a previous work[6] we described an algorithm to ...
The PDF format is commonly used for the exchange of documents on the Web and there is a growing need to understand and extract or repurpose data held in PDF documents. Many system...
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...