Query-independent features (also called document priors), such as the number of incoming links to a document, its Page-Rank, or the type of its associated URL, have been successfu...
An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps t...
Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...
: The effectiveness of semantic applications can be increased significantly if the system does not urge the users to take care of explicit semantic annotation creation. Today, sema...
The usefulness of online information such as e-publishing and timely notification on the latest scientific or professional news has been widely accepted. However, access to such v...