Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
This paper is concerned with rank aggregation, the task of combining the ranking results of individual rankers at meta-search. Previously, rank aggregation was performed mainly by...
Yu-Ting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Han...
We report on the CLEF 2006 WebCLEF track devoted to crosslingual web retrieval. We provide details about the retrieval tasks, the used topic set, and the results of WebCLEF partic...
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
We introduce a statistical model for abbreviation disambiguation in Web search, based on analysis of Web data resources, including anchor text, click log and query log. By combini...