Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
The assumptions underlying the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) have led to a number of alternative approaches that cater or compensate for the PRP’s limitations. In this pos...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. van Rijsbergen
In this paper, we study the problem of learning block classification models to estimate block functions. We distinguish general models, which are learned across multiple sites, an...
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...