In TREC 2003, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participate in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval ta...
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
We present a new model for detection of noun phrases in unrestricted text, whose most outstanding feature is its flexibility: the system is able to recognize noun phrases similar ...
A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...
Keyword search is widely recognized as a convenient way to retrieve information from XML data. In order to precisely meet users' search concerns, we study how to effectively r...
Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu, ...